File:Costa Rica, Atlantic Watershed region, 3rd century BC - AD 6th century - Bird Pendant (Buzzard or Vulture?) - 1954.148 - Cleveland Museum of Art.jpg

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Bird Pendant (Buzzard or Vulture?)
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Bird Pendant (Buzzard or Vulture?)
Description
Before about AD 500, when gold-working technologies were adopted in Costa Rica, jade was the quintessential luxury material and it was masterfully carved into exquisite ornaments of many kinds. Ancient Americans did not use many metal tools, and artists carved jade, a tough stone, with implements of stone, bone, bamboo, or reed.
Date -300
Medium Jadeite
Dimensions Overall: 4.3 x 3 x 4.9 cm (1 11/16 x 1 3/16 x 1 15/16 in.)
Cleveland Museum of Art
Current location
Art of the Americas
Accession number
1954.148
Place of creation Costa Rica, Atlantic Watershed region, 3rd century BC - AD 6th century
Credit line John L. Severance Fund
Source/Photographer https://clevelandart.org/art/1954.148

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