Detail View: MAW Collection:
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Filename:
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MawM0115-000.jp2
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Identifying Number:
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MawM0115
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Title:
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Standing elderly pregnant female.
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Subject:
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Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Jaina Island
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Subject:
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Maya art--Mexico--Jaina Island
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Subject:
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Mayas--Antiquities
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Subject:
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Indigenous peoples--Antiquities
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Subject:
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Art--Mexico--Jaina Island
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Description:
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The elite female figure wears a puffy jaguar skin headdress with three blue quetzal feathers, a pair of earspools and a necklace. Her old and worn body as well as her jaguar paws support a very pregnant abdomen. Fertility scepters of this goddess called "Lady Rainbow" were given to women as a good maternity omen.
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Materials:
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Ceramic: reduced clay with polychromed stucco: red-brown, Maya blue, and black pigment.
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Publisher:
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California State University, Los Angeles
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Date:
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between 500 and 900
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Type:
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Artifact
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Object Type:
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Figure
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Dimensions:
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11 1/2 in high x 2 1/16 in wide x 2 9/16 in depth
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Collection:
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MAW Collection
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Location:
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Jaina Island, Mexico
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Rights:
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Physical collection housed at California State University, Los Angeles. | MATERIALS ARE IN COPYRIGHT | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
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Culture:
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Maya
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Period:
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Late Classic
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