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watercolour of caryatid IX (watercolour)

Watercolour of caryatid IX, showing front and back views (back view at smaller scale).
Caryatid (properly called Atlantid) wears a white shell? and jade headdress, with jade armlets, ear plugs and necklace, with pink loincloth and legbands. Back view shows the feather cloak with long green feathers, and neckband of short red and yellow feathers.
13th-15th century AD.
From the outer chamber, Upper Temple of the Jaguars (Temple A), Great Ball Court, Chichen Itza.

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