Dancing hunchback carrying a conch-shell trumpet
Dancing hunchback carrying a conch-shell trumpet

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Dancing hunchback carrying a conch-shell trumpet,

400–800 CE

Maya
Late Classic Period
1996-58
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Collection Publications: Music in the Land of the Jaguar

Information

Title
Dancing hunchback carrying a conch-shell trumpet
Dates

400–800 CE

Medium
Ceramic with traces of pigment
Dimensions
17.2 × 7.4 × 5.7 cm (6 3/4 × 2 15/16 × 2 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, partial gift of Leonard H. Bernheim Jr., Class of 1959
Object Number
1996-58
Place Made

North America, Guatemala, Petén, Maya area

Culture
Maya
Period
Late Classic
Type
figurines, ceramics
Materials
pigment, ceramic
Subject
dancers, trumpets, figures (representations), conch

Alphonse Jax, New York, NY; purchased on March 26, 1996, by the Princeton University Art Museum.

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