Color Plate 34

Year: 2008

Summary

A display of jade ornaments and Spondylus shells found with Burial 116, Tikal Museum, 1964. Note the large shell set over the top of the skull, the worked valves arranged over and along the body, and the unworked shell near the right ankle. Jade ornaments shown are a diadem, composite ear ornaments, a necklace of long beads with square sections, a necklace of graduated large pebble beads, bracelets and anklets of long cylinder beads, and scattered pebble beads.

Cite this Record

Color Plate 34. 2008 ( tDAR id: 377578) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8MC8ZN5

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Keywords

Culture
Maya

Material
Ceramic • Ground Stone • Shell

Site Name
Tikal

Site Type
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Settlements • Tomb • Town / City

Investigation Types
Collections Research

General
Ritual • Social Status

Geographic Keywords
Guatemala

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: -2000 to 900

Spatial Coverage

min long: -89.779; min lat: 17.05 ; max long: -89.375; max lat: 17.385 ;

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