| Object Name: | Gold necklace |
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| Creation Date: | 1200-1500 AD | |
| Culture: | Mixtec | |
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| Material: | gold | |
| Repository: | Museo Regional, Oaxaca | |
| Image source: | © Dr. Manuel Aguilar | |
| At Tomb 7 the Mixtecs laid the remains of one of their kings and the bodies of his slaughtered servants, sometime in the mid-fourteenth century. Accompanying the ruler were magnificent objects of gold, cast in the lost-wax process, and silver; turquoise mosaics; necklaces of rock crystal, amber, jet, and coral; thousands of pearls, one as big as a pigeon's egg; and sections of jaguar bone carved with historical and mythological scenes. | ||
