Pendant of dark green stone carved in the shape of a stylised human face. It is perforated at the back. [BA [OPS move] 1/11/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Pendant of dark green stone carved in the shape of a stylised human face. It is perforated at the back. [BA [OPS move] 1/11/2017]
Long description: Pendant
Geographical reference: Mexico
Latin America and the Caribbean > Central America > Mexico; Oaxaca
Person: Field collector Bryce McMurdo Wright; PRM source Wellcome Institute; PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Mixtec Archaeological period: Post-Classic
Date collected: By 1933
Acquisition information: Transferred: 1985
Materials and processes: Material Jadeite Stone, Process Carved, Process Perforated
Dimensions: Width: max 18 mm, Length: max 22 mm, Depth: max 8 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1985.49.17
Research and responses: One of the no-doubt many Wrights this collection could be from is Bryce McMurdo Wright [AP 15/11/2001]
Dr Elizabeth Graham, UCL, noted during the Fell funded project Characterizing the World Archaeology Collections that Mesoamericanists tend not to use the term 'amulet'. [AS 28/10/2010]

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