Comala style ceramic bottle with sgraffito geometric designs
Comala style ceramic bottle with sgraffito geometric designs
Jaina Island style solid ceramic effigy whistle, wearing a headdress, earrings, bracelets, and clothing / Mesoamerican; Mayan
Essay/Description
Ceramic whistle in the shape of an effigy. Jaina Island Style. Mold formed. Figure has a headdress, earrings, bracelets, and clothing. Traces of pigment.
Jaina Island lies off the coast of the Mexican state of Campeche in the Yucatan Peninsula. It is the site of a Mayan necropolis or a large cemetery where ceramic figurines were often interred with the dead.