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Kerr Number:  5233
Vase Type:  Polychrome
Figure Count:  3
Height:  23.8 cm
Diameter:  13.5 cm
Circumference:  43 cm
MS Number:  1720
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Publications:  The Maya Vase Book, Volume 6 p.929
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Comments:  A ruler dances while looking into a mirror. He is accompanied by two musicians who play a friction drum and a rasca  Click here for an article about the instrument depicted on this vase.
Iconographic Elements:  Bundle, Tribute, Cache, Codex - Book, Mirror, Musicians, Ruler, King, Cacique, Governor, Potentate, Drum

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Photograph by Justin Kerr
Added 1998-01-19

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Kerr Number:  5435
Vase Type:  Polychrome
Figure Count:  8
Height:  23 cm
Diameter:  17.7 cm
Circumference:  60 cm
MS Number:  114
Owner:  St. Louis Art Museum St. Louis MO
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Publications:  Painting the Maya Universe,p.265
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Comments:  Ball game.Museum number 216:1979 See http://www.mayavase.com/coeballgame.pdf  CLICK for ths shape of the vessel
Iconographic Elements:  Ball Or Ballgame, Inscription - Other Text, Musicians, Yokes, Ballgame Gear

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Photograph by Justin Kerr
Added 1999-04-04

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Kerr Number:  5534
Vase Type:  Polychrome
Figure Count:  8
Height:  16.2 cm
Diameter:  13 cm
Circumference:  45 cm
MS Number:  1793
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Publications:  The Maya Vase Book, Volume 6 p.933
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Comments:    CLICK HERE for a discussion of this vase.
Iconographic Elements:  Bundle, Tribute, Cache, Dog, Canine, Inscription - Other Text, Litter, Palanquin, Hammock, Lord, Elite Person Not A Ruler, Musicians, Sombrero - Hunter's Hat, Trumpet, Throne

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Photograph by Justin Kerr
Added 1998-01-19

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Kerr Number:  5937
Vase Type:  Polychrome
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Height:  21 cm
Diameter:  14 cm
Circumference:  40.7 cm
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Comments:  Musicans at a ballgame, one blows a trumpet, the other a conch.  CLICK for shape of vessel
Iconographic Elements:  Ball Or Ballgame, Conch Shell, Inscription - Other Text, Musicians, Trumpet, Yokes, Ballgame Gear, Primary Standard Sequence

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Photograph by Justin Kerr
Added 2003-12-23

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Kerr Number:  6294
Vase Type:  Polychrome
Figure Count:  8
Height:  18.5 cm
Diameter:  10.4 cm
Circumference:  44.8 cm
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Owner:  The Jay Kislak Foundation, Miami Lakes, FL
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Publications:  The Maya Vase Book, Volume 6 p. 957
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Comments:  A ceremony where warriors wearing large backracks are carried into the palace, a ruler dances as musicians play.  Click here to see the shape of the vessel.
Iconographic Elements:  Inscription - Other Text, Musicians, Ruler, King, Cacique, Governor, Potentate, Trumpet, Primary Standard Sequence, Drum

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Added 1999-12-23

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Kerr Number:  6316
Vase Type:  Polychrome
Figure Count:  4
Height:  20.5 cm
Diameter:  16 cm
Circumference:  8 cm
MS Number:  50.2
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Publications:  The Maya Vase Book, Volume 6 p. 959
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Comments:  In a palace scene, a ruler readies himself to dance to the rhythm of a rasca gourd. A woman carries a cache vessel with either a severed head or a mask. The text has the glyph for accession to office.  Click here to see the shape of the vessel.
Iconographic Elements:  Female, Curtains, In Palace Scenes, Musicians, Ruler, King, Cacique, Governor, Potentate, Offering To Humans Or Gods

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Photograph by Justin Kerr
Added 1999-12-23

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Kerr Number:  6317
Vase Type:  Polychrome
Figure Count:  0
Height:  18.5 cm
Diameter:  16.5 cm
Circumference:  49.5 cm
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Publications:  The Maya Vase Book, Volume 6 p. 960
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Comments:  A ruler carried in a litter accompanied by trumpeters and a dog  CLICK for the shape of the vessel
Iconographic Elements:  Dog, Canine, Litter, Palanquin, Hammock, Musicians, Ruler, King, Cacique, Governor, Potentate, Sombrero - Hunter's Hat, Trumpet

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Photograph by Justin Kerr
Added 1999-11-27

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Kerr Number:  6984
Vase Type:  Polychrome
Figure Count:  8
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Owner:  Hudson Museum Orono ME Museum number HM 533
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Publications:  The Maya Scribe and his World, Michael Coe number 31.
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Comments:   Ruler on throne observes someone who is being pointed at, while three trumpets play and a dancer performs  
Iconographic Elements:  Ah K'hun, Orator, Inscription - Other Text, Lord, Elite Person Not A Ruler, Musicians, Ruler, King, Cacique, Governor, Potentate, Trumpet, Throne

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Photograph by Justin Kerr
Added 1998-01-19

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Kerr Number:  6995
Vase Type:  Polychrome
Figure Count:  2
Height:  12.9 cm
Diameter:  14.7 cm
Circumference:  46 cm
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Owner:  Hudson Museum Orono ME Museum number HM 548
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Publications:  Coe 73 The Maya Scribe and His World no.15; The Maya Vase Book Vol.5 p.834
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Site:  Chama
Comments:  'Then they began to sing and dance. All the people of Xibalba arrived and gathered together in order to see them. Then they performed the dance of the cux, they danced the pubuy, and the danced the iboy.'  
Iconographic Elements:  Armadillo, Inscription - Other Text, Musicians

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Added 2000-01-05

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Kerr Number:  7613
Vase Type:  Polychrome
Figure Count:  10
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Owner:  NMAI-Smithsonian (Heye)
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Comments:  Ruler bringing carried to his burial. E. Danien believes it is a sacrifice of a dog.  
Iconographic Elements:  Conch Shell, Dog, Canine, Inscription - Other Text, Litter, Palanquin, Hammock, Musicians, Ruler, King, Cacique, Governor, Potentate, Trumpet, Throne

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Photograph by Justin Kerr
Added 1998-07-20

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