CERAMICS
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.
 The
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.
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