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Clay figure

Colour: 5 YR 6/5, light brown, reddish yellow. Production technique: Hand-modelled Function: - Type: - Pose: Seated, legs crossed. The right hand rests on the right knee, the left arm bent in front of the chest, the left hand under the armpit of the right arm. Clothing: Headdress consisting of a band of cloth divided into rectangular sections with a bead in the centre. Behind it, 16 slightly conical tubes stretch upwards. At the back, a flap, under which the hair is revealed again, falls onto the shoulders. Upper body naked. Waist cloth, with a long, trapezoidal apron in the centre. Jewellery: nose bridge. Ear plugs. Cheeks/chin guard, dotted. Remarks: White colour residue on the hip cloth and the apron. Hair depicted vertically between headdress and forehead. (Sambale 2003)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Maya
Object type
Clay figure
Dimensions
Height: 16,5 cm
Depth: 9 cm
Width: 7,5 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 4957
Related object(s)

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Late Classical
    where
    Mexico
    Yucatán
    who
    Maya
  • Collecting
    who
    Florentino Jimeno - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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