Plate Depicting a Dancing Figure, by Maya, 600–800
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Plate Depicting a Dancing Figure

Maya (Possibly Petén region, Guatemala)

600–800

Medium
Ceramic and pigment
Classification
Ceramics
Dimensions
Diam.: 27.9 cm (11 in.)
Culture
Guatemala
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of the Americas
Credit line
Gift of Merle B. Gordon
Rights
Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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