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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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Cataloguing data

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

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Guatemala
    Quiché
    who
    Maya
  • Collecting
    who
    Corona von Kleist - Former Possessors
    Werner von Kleist - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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