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Ceramic with Maya Blue paint; 11.3 × 7.4 × 8 cm. Gift of Gillett G. 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Taube, \"The Birth Vase: Natal Imagery in Ancient Maya Myth and Ritual,\" In <i>The Maya Vase Book,</i> Vol. 4, ed. Justin Kerr (New York: Kerr Associates, 1994).","citation":"Karl A. Taube, \"The Birth Vase: Natal Imagery in Ancient Maya Myth and Ritual,\" In <i>The Maya Vase Book,</i> Vol. 4, ed. Justin Kerr (New York: Kerr Associates, 1994).","date":1994,"id":2708,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/21492292"},{"boilertext":"Mary E. Miller, \"Rethinking Jaina: Goddesses, Skirts, and the Jolly Roger,\" &nbsp;<EM>Record of the Princeton University Art Museum</EM> 64 (2005): 63–70.","citation":"Mary E. Miller, \"Rethinking Jaina: Goddesses, Skirts, and the Jolly Roger,\" &nbsp;<EM>Record of the Princeton University Art Museum</EM> 64 (2005): 63–70., p. 65, fig. 2","date":2005,"id":3004,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774835"},{"boilertext":"Mary E. Miller and Simon Martin, <EM>Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya</EM> (San Francisco: Fine Arts Museum of San Fransisco, 2004).","citation":"Mary E. Miller and Simon Martin, <EM>Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya</EM> (San Francisco: Fine Arts Museum of San Fransisco, 2004)., pl. 58, 115 (illus.)","date":2004,"id":2924,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/54799516"},{"boilertext":"Donald McVicker, \"Figurines Are Us? The Social Organization of Jaina Island, Campeche, Mexico,\" in <EM>Ancient Mesoamerica </EM>23, no. 2&nbsp;(Fall, 2012):&nbsp;p. 211-234.","citation":"Donald McVicker, \"Figurines Are Us? The Social Organization of Jaina Island, Campeche, Mexico,\" in <EM>Ancient Mesoamerica </EM>23, no. 2&nbsp;(Fall, 2012):&nbsp;p. 211-234., p. 225 (illus.)","date":2012,"id":1449,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/4937733003"},{"boilertext":"\"Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2003,\" <em>Record of the Princeton University Art Museum</em> 63 (2004): p. 101-141.","citation":"\"Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2003,\" <em>Record of the Princeton University Art Museum</em> 63 (2004): p. 101-141., p. 139 (illus.), p. 141","date":2004,"id":1822,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774848"}],"nowebuse":"False","periods":[{"id":24016,"period":"Late Classic Period","alphasort":"Classic Period, Late","begindate":0,"enddate":0,"displayperiod":"Late Classic Period","displaydate":null}],"department":"Art of the Ancient Americas","attribute_groups":[{"id":2199317,"term":"Art of the Ancient Americas","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"daterange":"A.D. 500-1000","dateend":800,"depicted":[],"titles":[{"title":"Elderly woman and infant","titletype":"Primary Title","displayorder":1}],"hasimage":"true","creditlinerepro":"","objectnumber":"2003-26","inscribed":null,"texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"Elderly women in Mesoamerica frequently served as midwives and cared for young children. This woman’s expression is kind, and her gentle touch of the child is nurturing. The child exhibits the elongated head produced by binding the soft skulls of infants, considered beautiful among the Maya. This baby may be a young Jun Ixiim, the Maya maize god, who is consistently rendered as an idealized, beautiful human. We face the same ambiguity with the elderly woman: She may be an actual person, a generalized portrayal of this important social role, or the patron goddess of midwives, Chak Chel (Great Rainbow). Chak Chel is also a destructive goddess, a side of her character suggested by her name, since the Maya considered rainbows to be bad omens.\n","remarks":"AAA2_20-T6-2_CLA_FA_9_17_25.pdf - Day 1 installation"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"<p>\n\tMay 12, 1962, Furman Gallery, New York, sold to Gillett G. Griffin (1928-2016), Princeton, NJ [1]; 2003, gift of Gillett G. Griffin to the Princeton University Art Museum.\n</p>\n<p>\n\tNotes:\n\t<br />\n\t[1] According to the Furman Gallery invoice in the curatorial file.\n</p>","remarks":null}],"datebegin":600,"sortnumber":"2003   26","published_date":"2026-02-11 11:10:21.866440","objectid":41759,"dimensions":"11.3 × 7.4 × 8 cm (4 7/16 × 2 7/8 × 3 1/8 in.)","on_view":true}