Rattle in the Form of a Mythological Figure

650–800

Late Classic Maya, Jaina style
Campeche or Yucatán, Mexico

Many of the hollow interiors of mold-made Jaina figurines were transformed into rattles or whistles. As musical instruments, they may have been played during the funerary ceremonies of the deceased whom they accompanied into the afterlife.

Status: On View, Gallery 136
Department: Arts of the Americas

Culture: Maya
Title: Rattle in the Form of a Mythological Figure
Place: Campeche state (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 650 CE–800 CE
Medium: Ceramic and pigment
Dimensions: H.: 18.4 cm (7 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Joseph P. Antonow
Reference Number: 1970.1053
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The Art Quarterly, “Recent Accessions of American and Canadian Museums,”The Art
Quarterly 35, 1 (Spring 1972): 82.
Allen Wardwell, “Mayan Treasures at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Apollo: The International Magazine of Arts (June 1972), 490, fig. 7 (ill.).
Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 208, cat. 166 (ill.).

Joseph P. Antonow, Chicago, by Dec. 1970 [incoming permanent receipt RX7799, Dec. 29, 1970, copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1970.

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