Skull Effigy Pendant

300 BCE - 100 CE (?) or possibly 20th century

3.7 cm 6.5 cm 1.9 cm

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The small skull effigy pendant was made by the Maya of the Pacific Slopes of Guatemala. Similar in size, artistic quality, imagery, and function to the earlier Olmec pendant (2009.20.231), this expressive ornament demonstrates the continuity among later Mesoamerican peoples of...

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80376
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Jorge Castillo [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Throckmorton Fine Art, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John G. Bourne, July 26, 1995, by purchase; given to Walters Art Museum, 2014.
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