Cleveland Museum of Art
Seated Lord with Removable Headdress: Headdress
- Date
- 600–800
- Medium
- ceramic and slip
- Culture
- Mesoamerica, Maya, probably Jaina Island, Late Classical period, 7th-9th century
- Department
- Art of the Americas
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 170117
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The major Maya grave offerings on Jaina Island were ceramic figurines that depict deities and humans in a variety of roles. The headdress belongs to a seated figure who represents a male, perhaps another warrior, who wears a huge zoomorphic headdress. A skeletal face with articulated jaw descends from the headdress to fit as a mask over the figure’s face. It is estimated that some 20,000 people were buried on the tiny island of Jaina over a 500-year period.
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- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Provenance
- The figurine was accessioned into the collection of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute (MWPI) in Utica, New York in 1968 (accession number 68.76). The MWPI deaccessioned the vessel in 2000, when it entered a private collection in the U.S. The results of the Art Loss Register search are pending.
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