Jade pendant / Mesoamerican; Chorotegas

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Jade Pendant.

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Anthropology Item Information

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Title(s):

Jade pendant

Culture:

Mesoamerican; Chorotegas

Date:

Unknown

Period:

Mesoamerican Prehistoric

Place:

Guanacaste, Costa Rica

Materials/Techniques:

jade

Classification:

Archaeological Objects

Object Type:

Pendant

Accession No:

55.209

Department:

Anthropology

Not On View

Dimensions

Overall:

Height: 0 27/100in. (0.7cm)
Width: 1 1/100in. (2.6cm)
Length: 4 1/64in. (10.2cm)

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Tags:

adornment, Art, Costa Rica, Guanacaste, Indian, Indians, jewelry, , Mesoamerica, Mesoamerican, Mexican, México, Native American, Precolumbian, Pre-Columbian, prehistoric

The Maya greatly valued jade and wore it as a symbol of wealth and fertility. Typically only the wealthiest people, particularly kings, wore and were buried wearing jade. Jade’s color “was associated with the Maize God and evoked his eternal youth and vigor” (Meisler 2004).

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Jade pendant. 55.209. . Unknown. Tulsa: Gilcrease Museum, https://dci-collections.gilcrease.org/object/55209 (05/31/2017).

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