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Jaina Island ceramic effigy seated wearing headdress, earrings, arm cuffs, and clothing

Essay/Description

Ceramic seated effigy. Jaina Island Style. Mold formed. Figure has a headdress, earrings, arm cuffs, and clothing.

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.

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