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Mayan woman holding corn ceramic.
The coiled snake headdress is a significant artifact connected with maya women both ancient and modern.
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There are designs throughout the body.
Origins and heritage of mayan weaving.
Images of ancient maya women wearing this distinctive headdress have been found carved on stone monuments painted on ceramics and murals and drawn in screen fold bark paper books called codices.
The square face is 4 1 2 wide and 5 1 4 high.
Mar 19 2013 date.
Similar headdresses are worn today by maya women who practice healing and midwifery in the.
In the same way artists worked the hard stone they also delicately cut and incised marine and freshwater shell animal bones and even human bones.
The waist 12 1 2 in circumference.
According to mayan mythology ix chel was the patron of weaving.
Ix chel is a complex goddess with multiple facets concerned with healing midwifery sexuality herbalism weaving and nature.
The arms extend out 4.
Ceramic mayan figurine with corn head piece and holding corn maize.
The corn and waist band are a.