jo mayr Germany

Drawing 21 – Ballplayer

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Drawing 21 – Ballplayer Pottery Pottery and ceramics

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Country: Germany
Category: Handicrafts
Sector: Pottery
Materials: Pottery and ceramics
At Artelista since: Thursday 28th of June 2007
Tags: mundo, maya, guatemala, peten, poptun, naj tunich

Creative Commons License - by-nc-nd

Artwork description

The player wears a straw hat, torax armour, jaguar skin and knee pads. The number nine above the balls maybe describes the number of levels of the mayan underworld.

Replica: mixed technique, china ink on a clay plate, signed by the author, cross section dimension 27,5 cm, with hanger

Artist information

The art pieces shown here are (replicas) reprints drawn from the original Mayan underworld petroglyphs found in Naj Tunich caves. The artist uses mixed technique on a piece of domestic clay pottery.

The chambers of Naj Tunich were discovered by the hunter and farmer Bernabé Pop in the year 1979. This archeological site is found near the location of La Compuerta, about 35 km west of Poptún, Petén in Guatemala.

The first human prints located inside the cave --with an extension of...

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