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Seated Lord with Removable Headdress

600–800
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Overall: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.)
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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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The major Maya grave offerings on Jaina Island were ceramic figurines that depict deities and humans in a variety of roles. The standing figure represents a warrior who once probably held weapons and wears either quilted cotton armor or the feathered uniform of a military order. The seated figure also 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.
A red-brown ceramic seated figure wears a headdress about the same size as their body that fans out over their head. The figure has wide eyes with small holes for pupils, open mouth, and circular ear ornaments. The figure sits on a ceramic box, their hands resting on their knees and with a cloth hanging over their torso with an oval, open-mouthed face surrounded by four spheres in the center.

Seated Lord with Removable Headdress

600–800

Mesoamerica, Maya, probably Jaina Island, Late Classical period, 7th-9th century

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