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Standing Figure Wearing Headdress, Maya culture, Jaina Island, Pre-Columbian, fired clay and pigment

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Standing Figure Wearing Headdress

Maya culture, Jaina Island, Pre-Columbian

200 BC - AD 1000

Titles Standing Figure Wearing Headdress (Descriptive)
Artist Jaina Island, Campeche, Mexico / Maya culture, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Honduras, 200 BC - AD 1000
Medium fired clay and pigment
Credit Line Gift of Rita Judge Smith, 2001.126
Object Name sculpture
Classification Sculpture

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