Seated Woman with a Child -this Maya artwork is dated to AD 600-900.This small clay figurine depicts
Seated Woman with a Child -this Maya artwork is dated to AD 600-900.This small clay figurine depicts an elegantly dressed female, seated cross-legged and holding a baby in the crook of her right arm. Her close-fitting garment covers her left breast but leaves the right exposed for the child to suckle. She wears copious jewelry–two bracelets, a necklace, and large earrings–and a highly elaborate headdress. The figure may represent the moon goddess, who was also worshipped by the Maya as a patroness of fertility and childbirth. The figurine was most likely a grave offering, perhaps for a woman who had died in childbirth. The hollow clay object could also function as a whistle, and a few notes may have been blown at the funeral before the figurine was placed in the grave.Courtesy of & can be viewed the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, USA. Via their online collections: 1958.15.10. -- source link
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