Cleveland Museum of Art
Warrior Figurine with Removable Headdress (headdress)
- Date
- 600–900
- Medium
- earthenware with pigment
- Culture
- Mexico, Yucatán, Jaina Island region, Campeche, Maya style (250-900)
- Department
- Art of the Americas
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 140082
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The major offerings placed in the Maya graves of Jaina Island were ceramic figurines, some of Mesoamerica's finest, that depict deities and humans in a variety of roles. This removable headdress belongs to a warrior figure who once probably held weapons and wears either quilted cotton armor or the feathered uniform of a military order. We don't know why such figures are often pot-bellied.
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- Credit line
- James Albert and Mary Gardiner Ford Memorial Fund
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