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Figurine in shape of a skeleton ·  Guatemala, Maya · ID: 3038703

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Provenance
Robert & Marianne Huber, Dixon, USA
Robert Zink, Ludwigshafen, Germany
Size
H: 10,7 cm
H: 4.2 inch

Description

burnished clay, remains of reddish brown pigment, representing death, skeletonized skull and chest, equipment for whistling on the backside (?), fragmentary (legs missing);
used for ritual purposes.


The object Figurine in shape of a skeleton with the object ID 3038703 was last part of the auction 80th Tribal Art Auction at June 27, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 119.

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Comparing literature

Hickmann, Ellen, Klänge Altamerikas, Mannheim 2007, p. 129 f.


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