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Anthropomorphic Pendant with Zoomorphic Headdress
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Atlantic Watershed and Greater Nicoyan

Anthropomorphic Pendant with Zoomorphic Headdress

Atlantic Watershed or Greater Nicoyan, 300-500

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Anthropomorphic Pendant with Zoomorphic Headdress

Atlantic Watershed and Greater Nicoyan

Anthropomorphic Pendant with Zoomorphic Headdress

Anthropomorphic Pendant with Zoomorphic Headdress

Atlantic Watershed or Greater Nicoyan, 300-500

Physical Qualities Jadeite, 6 3/4 × 1 1/2 in. (17.1 × 3.8 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Ira H. Levy, Reston, Virginia
Object Number 1984.437
For general shape: Sawing-for the larger relief (beak of bird on top of head; chin of person 1/3 of the way down). Drilling: biconically to make suspension holes. Incising-linear details (hands, bird feet). Septum on back indicating this is sawn from a full jade celt (Bryan Cockrell, Dumbarton Oaks, 12/11/2015).
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