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The Mayan ceramics and artists of the statuette were
used to using a pigment mixture finely combined with
land of struck stone, minerals and water, to make geometric
and hieroglyphic images of rituals, myths, designs.
The main colors were blue, coffees, targets, yellows,
black, red and white. The ceramic one was used in table
utensils, money and in the offerings to deads. The clay
pots also were made to cook and to keep food and water.
These Mayan ceramics were elaborated mainly for the
domestic use and not as much for the ceremonial events
and the decorative intentions. Inscriptions in some
pieces of pottery reveal a detailed affluent mythology,
like the names of the pattern and the manufacturer.
Molds were used to make the ceramics, as well as the
active blocks of material to form it.
Balls were also made of clay that when they were worked
gave to the form and wished texture. These vasijas of
clay were dried outdoors. The Mayans made a great variety
of forms and sizes of ceramics like the figures, ballot
boxes, the small possessors of incense, vases, the pots,
etc. As in other civilizations some styles are typical
of a place and a period of time.
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Mayans also were surpassed creating clay statuettes
that incredibly had all the alterations of the body
doing them realistic, like the long foreheads of the
class elite. These works have shown to dresses and typical
adornments of their time, reason why they have helped
mayistas to understand a little but of this culture.
Clay statuettes in the form of plebians, the nobility
were created, priests, musicians, craftsmen, retailers,
soldiers and many that even exist, showing to a combination
of man and animal (zoomorphic) between many others.
Clay statuettes also were elaborated like flautas, whistles,
sonajas and even incense possessors. |
