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Jade pendant

Jade pendant: human profile head to the right with a hook-beaked bird's head to the right as a headdress. Human mouth and bird's beak open in a split, traces of drilling and sawing visible. Continuous longitudinal perforation, opening wider at the bottom, narrower at the top. Slight damage to the bird's eye feathers. Green stone with brownish chips. Late Classical or Early Post-Classical.

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Maya
Object type
Jade pendant
Dimensions
Breite: 3,5 cm Vogelkopf
Höhe: 8,2 cm
Material/Technique
Jade
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 47267

Provenance and sources

where
Guatemala
Quiché [Department]
who
Maya

who
Corona von Kleist - Former Possessors
Werner von Kleist - Collectors

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