Rattle in the Form of a Mythological Figure
Maya (Campeche or Yucatán, Mexico)
650–800
- Medium
- Ceramic and pigment
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
- H.: 18.4 cm (7 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- Campeche state
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Gift of Joseph P. Antonow
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Many of the hollow interiors of mold-made Jaina figurines were transformed into rattles or whistles. As musical instruments, they may have been played during the funerary ceremonies of the deceased whom they accompanied into the afterlife.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
