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Personal Ornament
World Cultures (Ea10967)
3 shell armlets- creamy white in colour, all are about the same size and shape, thin and delicate but intact
necklace
World Cultures (Ea11005)
Long string of tiny, pinkish, pointed shells strung on white thread
head band
World Cultures (Ea11315)
Palm leaf head band with thinly plaited bands of fibre sewn all over one side. Two long plaited ties at ends.
figure
World Cultures (Eb451)
Payback figure, one of a pair, male. These anthropomorphic standing figures are 'tourist' copies of a traditional 'payback' figure which was a stylized image of a person who had been killed; traditionally the figures were discarded when the death was avenged. These hand made figures are created from a wooden structure padded and wrapped with leaves. The male figure is covered in white mud on the legs, which is traditionally worn during the mourning period, with black pigment on the upper body. He wears a loin cloth and bark belt, with elbow bracelets, bracer wristbands, and a pearlshell necklace. he carries a bow and arrows and a bag.
dress textile
World Cultures (Ea12793), hipil
Child's white cotton hipil with embroidered machine embroidered floral decormation with pink, yellow, and green thread. This is typical Mayan dress.
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