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| Type of Object: | Personal Ornament |
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| Materials: | Jade |
| Measurements: | 5 to 15 cm. in length. |
| Date or Period: | Late Classic |
| Maker: | Maya |
| Designated List Section: | 8A Jade or Similar Greenstone Artifacts |
| Date of Import Restriction: | 03/10/1995 |
| Photograph: | Federico Trujillo |
| Copyright: | Banco Agricola Comercial de El Salvador |
| Description of Designated List Category Subject to Import Restrictions: | |
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| Lustrous and hard green-colored stone crafted into: beads (spherical, globular, tubular, discoidal); pendants (plain or with human or animal effigies, including so called ``axe gods'' and canine tooth effigies); plaques (or pectorals) with elaborate designs; masks; mosaics; earspools; animal or human effigies (heads or full figure); or schematic squatting human forms (similar to examples from the El Cajon area of Honduras). | |
| Keywords: | |
| carved, ceremonial object, greenstone, jade, jewelry, mask, religious object, ritual object, sculpture, |
