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Moon goddess and goddess of weaving

Colour: 10 YR 7/2.5, light grey, pale brown. Production technique: Moulded model Function: - Pose: Standing, arms straight in front of the body. In her left hand she holds a spindle whorl, in her right hand a fan. Clothing: Headdress, consisting of hair piled up at the sides to form bumps, with horizontal, narrow ribbons decorated with dots. Shoulder cape, long at the back, long breast flap at the front, cut wide at the top. Petticoat with sewn-on hem at the bottom. Jewellery: ear studs. Forehead and cheek decoration. Choker with pearl pendant and double-row pearl necklace with three pearl pendants. Pearl bracelets, four rows. Remarks: Very well preserved. Two holes in the front, one hole in the base, two holes in the back. (Sambale 2003)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Maya
Object type
Clay figure
Dimensions
Height: 16,5 cm
Depth: 5 cm
Width: 8,1 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 4854

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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