Beads
2019-11-15
From: Mexico (Central America) | Oaxaca (Mexican State)
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 2019-11-15 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Mexico (Central America) | Oaxaca (Mexican State) |
| Culture Area | Central American |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Gold | Jade | Obsidian | Porphyry | Stone |
| Description | 47 beads and 5 pendants: Gold beads - 5 spherical, Jade beads - 1 sperhical, 1 oval, 3 long, 1 long ringed. Obsidian beads - 2 long, 3 spheroidal, 25 round. Porphyry bead - 1 spheroidal. Unidentified stone - 1 grey stone long ringed bead, 2 greenstone spheroidal beads, 1 white stone spheroidal bead, 1 black stone cylindrical bead. Obsidian pendants - 3 duck head; Brown obsidian pendants - 1 duck head; Jade pendant - 1. 25 obsidian spheroidal beads NAF. |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Vaillant Family in memory of George C. Vaillant, 2019 |
| Other Number | L-144-18 - Old Loan Number | CG2017-2-294 - Found in Collection Number |
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