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"Female figures. In most cases it is possible to determine whether these clay heads are meant to represent women or men, head-dresses or head-ornaments providing reliable guidance on that point. Both sexes are about equally represented, thought it is possible that women in some degree predominate. Facial features are as a rule modelled on the same plan, which is natural enought seeing that the heads were first pressed into a mould and then given a finish. The expression is, therefore, generally stereotype and lifeless. In relation to their length the faces are very broad, the forehead is low, the nose is disproportionately small, and the eyes long and narrow. The mouth is accentuated by means of the corners´ being indicated by two deeply impressed holes, as is also frequently the case with the nostrils. The chin is weak, and the ears merely suggested, if at all visible. The eyebrows are often represented by arches formed by impressed dots set close together. The potter centred his interest upon the head-ornaments, which, so far as can be judged, must have been very complex.
One of the most common types is seen in Fig. 18a (Högberg´s collection 1901.23.27). From the forehead rises a high and straight pad, which must have been formed over some sort of frame. ... Exceedingly characteristic of Yotkan ceramics is the type seen in Fig. 20 b (Cf. Kiseritskij, figs 1a, 1b)... The above described pad over the forehead is absent, but it is replaced by a diadem formed of circular plates. The plait, which is taken from the nape of the neck up to the crown of the head, is thicker, and has been detached from the head so as to recemble a small handle. The object on the top of the head is absent, but all the more prominence has been given to the arching coil of hair. Occasionally this is also decorated with circular plates, as i also the thick, upturned plait at the back. To what extent this may be a true repdresentation of reality, or merely conventionalized exageration, it is impossible to determine.
Fig 20 a illustrates a head of grey-black clay material, plainly made and bare of any extra adornments.
Stein has made a fortunate acquisition in a complete figure with a head of this typoe (Stein 1921 vol IV pl. II (Yo 2). It represents a woman holding a cradle in front of her. She appears to be dressed in a jacket with wide and pointed sleeves, resemblign the dancing-dresses worn by Lama priests. The body is cut off below the hips so as to provide an adequate standing surface. Possibly this little figurine served as a toy, or doll."

Montell 1936, p. 179 ff.