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Best are still functioning whistles showing Regalia.
Tattooed Maya Players in ballgame attire, wearing the YOKE stone halter for hitting the ball and lower leg protectors, old gods, monkey beast transformations etc
Note the detail with the figures. And one picture of one Similar mold pair from the MUSEO NATIONAL de ANTHROPOLOGIA, MEXICO
Whistles and rattles were important for the elite when they were buried.
They needed to get the attention of the gods or their high-ranking relatives at the afterlife in order to enter into the good afterlife.
This is ancient PRE-COLUMBIAN Terra-cotta, JAINA island site, Mexico
Note some in this collection still have traces of Maya blue pigment on the surfaces.
Most intact as found, some with lower breaks restored. Remnants of collection tag on the undersides, Mn blooms
Last photo shows the backs of the 2 prior to the restoration
Condition per photographs
