Ball Player Figure
Maya, 550-850 AD
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Vessel Top in the Form of a Cacao Diety
Maya, 600-900 AD
The Indianapolis Museum of Art
Warrior Effigy
Maya, 600-750 AD
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Figure
Maya, 600-900 AD
The Brooklyn Museum
“Images of human beings emerging from flowers represent a special class of Maya figurines found primarily on Jaina Island, just off Mexico’s Campeche coast, a place that may have functioned as a major funerary center. Jaina figurines are among the most intricate and detailed ceramic works produced in pre-Columbian America. In this exquisite example, a slender, youthful male rises in an attitude of calm authority from a water-lily pod. Because the water lily is associated with the underworld in Maya cosmology, this figurine may have been intended to symbolize the renewal of life after death.”
Incensario Support
Maya, 600-900 AD
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Mirror Bearer
Maya, 6th century
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Armadillo Figure
Maya, 500-1000 AD
The National Museum of the American Indian
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