Gold pendant ornament Mixtec style, Oaxaca, Mexico, A.D.1400-1500 The Mixteca were supreme artists in gold and lapidary work. This small mask, with the face of beaten plate and cast pendant ear ornaments, resembles some of the magnificent gold items…
Fragment of bone, perhaps part of a pendant (hole drilled in corner). One of 59 bone fragments, ABDUA 8325-8330 are ornaments, ABDUA 8331-8383 are tools. Museum's 'Slip Catalogue': 'Found in the Valley of Mexico at a depth of about three metres below…
Shell ornament/armlet with two perforations. Found about a mile from the sea-shore, near Tampico, State of Tamaulipas, Mexico. Probably made by Huastecan Indians.
Camel's bridle/collar in silver with twenty cylindrical-shaped ornaments and eighteen square ornaments strung on plaited cord, with three conical tassels hanging from each ornament, and seventeen green beads separating the ornaments from one another.