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| Type of Object: | Mosaic |
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| Materials: | Ceramic and Stone |
| Measurements: | Various |
| Date or Period: | Postclassic |
| Maker: | Pipil |
| 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: | |
| ceramic, ceremonial object, disk, figural decoration, mosaic, religious object, ritual object, stone, |
