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Title
Ceramic earspools : 28.
Description
There are twenty-eight ceramic ear spools. Fourteen are black ware, six orange ware, five tan ware, one incised, one polychrome, one cone-shaped. Riker Mount has six orange ware. Riker Box has twenty-two ear spools, four different styles.17 napkin ring, 6 Horer color, 2 cone shape, 1 tube shape. 1 solid, 3 pierced, 1 incised, 1 painted polychrome.
Subject
[Ceramic jewelry--Mexico, Decoration and ornament--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 250 BC and 250
Title
Ceramic earspools : 28.
Description
There are twenty-eight ceramic ear spools. Fourteen are black ware, six orange ware, five tan ware, one incised, one polychrome, one cone-shaped. Riker Mount has six orange ware. Riker Box has twenty-two ear spools, four different styles.17 napkin ring, 6 Horer color, 2 cone shape, 1 tube shape. 1 solid, 3 pierced, 1 incised, 1 painted polychrome.
Subject
[Ceramic jewelry--Mexico, Decoration and ornament--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 250 BC and 250
Title
Ceramic earspools : 28.
Description
There are twenty-eight ceramic ear spools. Fourteen are black ware, six orange ware, five tan ware, one incised, one polychrome, one cone-shaped. Riker Mount has six orange ware. Riker Box has twenty-two ear spools, four different styles.17 napkin ring, 6 Horer color, 2 cone shape, 1 tube shape. 1 solid, 3 pierced, 1 incised, 1 painted polychrome.
Subject
[Ceramic jewelry--Mexico, Decoration and ornament--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 250 BC and 250
Title
Ceramic earspools : 28.
Description
There are twenty-eight ceramic ear spools. Fourteen are black ware, six orange ware, five tan ware, one incised, one polychrome, one cone-shaped. Riker Mount has six orange ware. Riker Box has twenty-two ear spools, four different styles.17 napkin ring, 6 Horer color, 2 cone shape, 1 tube shape. 1 solid, 3 pierced, 1 incised, 1 painted polychrome.
Subject
[Ceramic jewelry--Mexico, Decoration and ornament--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 250 BC and 250
Title
Ceramic earspools : 28.
Description
There are twenty-eight ceramic ear spools. Fourteen are black ware, six orange ware, five tan ware, one incised, one polychrome, one cone-shaped. Riker Mount has six orange ware. Riker Box has twenty-two ear spools, four different styles.17 napkin ring, 6 Horer color, 2 cone shape, 1 tube shape. 1 solid, 3 pierced, 1 incised, 1 painted polychrome.
Subject
[Ceramic jewelry--Mexico, Decoration and ornament--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 250 BC and 250
Title
Whistle in the form of two people : conjoined mourning twins.
Description
People with unusual appearances may have held a special position in Mesoamerican societies. Normal twins were very special and conjoined twins a rarity. The individuals represented are very close together. Their two arms wrap around each other. Their posture suggests they are mourners, ill, sleeping, or drugged. The hollow body of the twins forms an Ocarina.
Subject
[Whistles--Mexico--Nayarit, Pottery--Mexico--Nayarit, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 300 B.C. and 300 A.D.
Title
Whistle in the form of two people : conjoined mourning twins.
Description
People with unusual appearances may have held a special position in Mesoamerican societies. Normal twins were very special and conjoined twins a rarity. The individuals represented are very close together. Their two arms wrap around each other. Their posture suggests they are mourners, ill, sleeping, or drugged. The hollow body of the twins forms an Ocarina.
Subject
[Whistles--Mexico--Nayarit, Pottery--Mexico--Nayarit, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 300 B.C. and 300 A.D.
Title
Whistle in the form of two people : conjoined mourning twins.
Description
People with unusual appearances may have held a special position in Mesoamerican societies. Normal twins were very special and conjoined twins a rarity. The individuals represented are very close together. Their two arms wrap around each other. Their posture suggests they are mourners, ill, sleeping, or drugged. The hollow body of the twins forms an Ocarina.
Subject
[Whistles--Mexico--Nayarit, Pottery--Mexico--Nayarit, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 300 B.C. and 300 A.D.
Title
Whistle in the form of two people : conjoined mourning twins.
Description
People with unusual appearances may have held a special position in Mesoamerican societies. Normal twins were very special and conjoined twins a rarity. The individuals represented are very close together. Their two arms wrap around each other. Their posture suggests they are mourners, ill, sleeping, or drugged. The hollow body of the twins forms an Ocarina.
Subject
[Whistles--Mexico--Nayarit, Pottery--Mexico--Nayarit, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 300 B.C. and 300 A.D.
Title
Whistle in the form of two people : conjoined mourning twins.
Description
People with unusual appearances may have held a special position in Mesoamerican societies. Normal twins were very special and conjoined twins a rarity. The individuals represented are very close together. Their two arms wrap around each other. Their posture suggests they are mourners, ill, sleeping, or drugged. The hollow body of the twins forms an Ocarina.
Subject
[Whistles--Mexico--Nayarit, Pottery--Mexico--Nayarit, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 300 B.C. and 300 A.D.
Title
Whistle in the form of two people : conjoined mourning twins.
Description
People with unusual appearances may have held a special position in Mesoamerican societies. Normal twins were very special and conjoined twins a rarity. The individuals represented are very close together. Their two arms wrap around each other. Their posture suggests they are mourners, ill, sleeping, or drugged. The hollow body of the twins forms an Ocarina.
Subject
[Whistles--Mexico--Nayarit, Pottery--Mexico--Nayarit, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 300 B.C. and 300 A.D.
Title
Platform : two kneeling females beating an oval drum.
Description
A rather unusual platform group consisting of two seated females with an oval object between them. Each female holds a right hand to her head and the left hand rests or hits the oval object, perhaps a drum.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 300 B.C. and 300 A.D.
Title
Platform : two kneeling females beating an oval drum.
Description
A rather unusual platform group consisting of two seated females with an oval object between them. Each female holds a right hand to her head and the left hand rests or hits the oval object, perhaps a drum.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 300 B.C. and 300 A.D.
Title
Platform : two kneeling females beating an oval drum.
Description
A rather unusual platform group consisting of two seated females with an oval object between them. Each female holds a right hand to her head and the left hand rests or hits the oval object, perhaps a drum.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 300 B.C. and 300 A.D.
Title
Platform : two kneeling females beating an oval drum.
Description
A rather unusual platform group consisting of two seated females with an oval object between them. Each female holds a right hand to her head and the left hand rests or hits the oval object, perhaps a drum.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 300 B.C. and 300 A.D.
Title
Platform : two kneeling females beating an oval drum.
Description
A rather unusual platform group consisting of two seated females with an oval object between them. Each female holds a right hand to her head and the left hand rests or hits the oval object, perhaps a drum.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 300 B.C. and 300 A.D.
Title
Platform : two kneeling females beating an oval drum.
Description
A rather unusual platform group consisting of two seated females with an oval object between them. Each female holds a right hand to her head and the left hand rests or hits the oval object, perhaps a drum.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 300 B.C. and 300 A.D.
Title
West Mexican stamp seals : two.
Description
Both of these stamp seals are perforated for suspension. They depict abstract faces wearing a triple tipped headdress, large round eyes with three vertical linear elements below them. The images suggest the Rain God, Tlaloc.
Subject
[Stamp seals--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 400 and 100 BC
Title
West Mexican stamp seals : two.
Description
Both of these stamp seals are perforated for suspension. They depict abstract faces wearing a triple tipped headdress, large round eyes with three vertical linear elements below them. The images suggest the Rain God, Tlaloc.
Subject
[Stamp seals--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 400 and 100 BC
Title
West Mexican stamp seals : two.
Description
Both of these stamp seals are perforated for suspension. They depict abstract faces wearing a triple tipped headdress, large round eyes with three vertical linear elements below them. The images suggest the Rain God, Tlaloc.
Subject
[Stamp seals--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 400 and 100 BC
Title
West Mexican stamp seals : two.
Description
Both of these stamp seals are perforated for suspension. They depict abstract faces wearing a triple tipped headdress, large round eyes with three vertical linear elements below them. The images suggest the Rain God, Tlaloc.
Subject
[Stamp seals--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 400 and 100 BC
Title
Large smoking pipe : bulbous bowl.
Description
The large ceramic smoking pipe was used to smoke a variety of tobacco. The tobacco contained a higher concentration of nicotine and other substances. There is a possibility that the tobacco was combined with other drugs to give a hallucinogenic experience.
Subject
[Tobacco pipes--Mexico--Michoacán de Ocampo, Pottery--Mexico--Michoacán de Ocampo, Ceramic tableware--Mexico--Michoacán de Ocampo, Art--Mexico--Michoacán de Ocampo, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities, Art--Mexico]
Date
between 600 and 1521
Title
Large smoking pipe : bulbous bowl.
Description
The large ceramic smoking pipe was used to smoke a variety of tobacco. The tobacco contained a higher concentration of nicotine and other substances. There is a possibility that the tobacco was combined with other drugs to give a hallucinogenic experience.
Subject
[Tobacco pipes--Mexico--Michoacán de Ocampo, Pottery--Mexico--Michoacán de Ocampo, Ceramic tableware--Mexico--Michoacán de Ocampo, Art--Mexico--Michoacán de Ocampo, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities, Art--Mexico]
Date
between 600 and 1521
Title
Large smoking pipe : bulbous bowl.
Description
The large ceramic smoking pipe was used to smoke a variety of tobacco. The tobacco contained a higher concentration of nicotine and other substances. There is a possibility that the tobacco was combined with other drugs to give a hallucinogenic experience.
Subject
[Tobacco pipes--Mexico--Michoacán de Ocampo, Pottery--Mexico--Michoacán de Ocampo, Ceramic tableware--Mexico--Michoacán de Ocampo, Art--Mexico--Michoacán de Ocampo, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities, Art--Mexico]
Date
between 600 and 1521
Title
Large smoking pipe : bulbous bowl.
Description
The large ceramic smoking pipe was used to smoke a variety of tobacco. The tobacco contained a higher concentration of nicotine and other substances. There is a possibility that the tobacco was combined with other drugs to give a hallucinogenic experience.
Subject
[Tobacco pipes--Mexico--Michoacán de Ocampo, Pottery--Mexico--Michoacán de Ocampo, Ceramic tableware--Mexico--Michoacán de Ocampo, Art--Mexico--Michoacán de Ocampo, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities, Art--Mexico]
Date
between 600 and 1521
Title
Large smoking pipe : bulbous bowl.
Description
The large ceramic smoking pipe was used to smoke a variety of tobacco. The tobacco contained a higher concentration of nicotine and other substances. There is a possibility that the tobacco was combined with other drugs to give a hallucinogenic experience.
Subject
[Tobacco pipes--Mexico--Michoacán de Ocampo, Pottery--Mexico--Michoacán de Ocampo, Ceramic tableware--Mexico--Michoacán de Ocampo, Art--Mexico--Michoacán de Ocampo, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities, Art--Mexico]
Date
between 600 and 1521
Title
Large smoking pipe : bulbous bowl.
Description
The large ceramic smoking pipe was used to smoke a variety of tobacco. The tobacco contained a higher concentration of nicotine and other substances. There is a possibility that the tobacco was combined with other drugs to give a hallucinogenic experience.
Subject
[Tobacco pipes--Mexico--Michoacán de Ocampo, Pottery--Mexico--Michoacán de Ocampo, Ceramic tableware--Mexico--Michoacán de Ocampo, Art--Mexico--Michoacán de Ocampo, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities, Art--Mexico]
Date
between 600 and 1521
Title
Copper labret.
Description
Labrets are ornamental plugs that fit into a slit/hole below the lower lip. An expanded flange holds it in place. Labrets are usually made out of stones like obsidian, red chert, green serpentine, or rock crystal. They were made of other materials such as clay and copper.
Subject
[Labrets, Jewelry--Mexico, Decoration and ornament--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1200
Title
Copper labret.
Description
Labrets are ornamental plugs that fit into a slit/hole below the lower lip. An expanded flange holds it in place. Labrets are usually made out of stones like obsidian, red chert, green serpentine, or rock crystal. They were made of other materials such as clay and copper.
Subject
[Labrets, Jewelry--Mexico, Decoration and ornament--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1200
Title
Copper labret.
Description
Labrets are ornamental plugs that fit into a slit/hole below the lower lip. An expanded flange holds it in place. Labrets are usually made out of stones like obsidian, red chert, green serpentine, or rock crystal. They were made of other materials such as clay and copper.
Subject
[Labrets, Jewelry--Mexico, Decoration and ornament--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1200
Title
Copper labret.
Description
Labrets are ornamental plugs that fit into a slit/hole below the lower lip. An expanded flange holds it in place. Labrets are usually made out of stones like obsidian, red chert, green serpentine, or rock crystal. They were made of other materials such as clay and copper.
Subject
[Labrets, Jewelry--Mexico, Decoration and ornament--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1200
Title
Copper labret.
Description
Labrets are ornamental plugs that fit into a slit/hole below the lower lip. An expanded flange holds it in place. Labrets are usually made out of stones like obsidian, red chert, green serpentine, or rock crystal. They were made of other materials such as clay and copper.
Subject
[Labrets, Jewelry--Mexico, Decoration and ornament--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1200
Title
Copper labret.
Description
Labrets are ornamental plugs that fit into a slit/hole below the lower lip. An expanded flange holds it in place. Labrets are usually made out of stones like obsidian, red chert, green serpentine, or rock crystal. They were made of other materials such as clay and copper.
Subject
[Labrets, Jewelry--Mexico, Decoration and ornament--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1200
Title
Small copper pin.
Description
Metallurgy in copper was popular in Mixtec times. The art of metalworking was introduced around AD 800 into West Mexico from Central or South America
Subject
[Pins and needles--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous Peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1200
Title
Small copper pin.
Description
Metallurgy in copper was popular in Mixtec times. The art of metalworking was introduced around AD 800 into West Mexico from Central or South America
Subject
[Pins and needles--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous Peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1200
Title
Small copper pin.
Description
Metallurgy in copper was popular in Mixtec times. The art of metalworking was introduced around AD 800 into West Mexico from Central or South America
Subject
[Pins and needles--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous Peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1200
Title
Small copper pin.
Description
Metallurgy in copper was popular in Mixtec times. The art of metalworking was introduced around AD 800 into West Mexico from Central or South America
Subject
[Pins and needles--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous Peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1200
Title
Tweezers : spherical pinchers.
Description
Tweezers were very common in the Central South American Andes, but not in Mesoamerica. The elite Tarascans wore tweezers as a pendant. They probably were more than an object to remove facial hair. The tweezers were more like badge of office or status.
Subject
[Aztec sculpture--Mexico, Metal sculpture--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1200
Title
Tweezers : spherical pinchers.
Description
Tweezers were very common in the Central South American Andes, but not in Mesoamerica. The elite Tarascans wore tweezers as a pendant. They probably were more than an object to remove facial hair. The tweezers were more like badge of office or status.
Subject
[Aztec sculpture--Mexico, Metal sculpture--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1200
Title
Tweezers : spherical pinchers.
Description
Tweezers were very common in the Central South American Andes, but not in Mesoamerica. The elite Tarascans wore tweezers as a pendant. They probably were more than an object to remove facial hair. The tweezers were more like badge of office or status.
Subject
[Aztec sculpture--Mexico, Metal sculpture--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1200
Title
Tweezers : spherical pinchers.
Description
Tweezers were very common in the Central South American Andes, but not in Mesoamerica. The elite Tarascans wore tweezers as a pendant. They probably were more than an object to remove facial hair. The tweezers were more like badge of office or status.
Subject
[Aztec sculpture--Mexico, Metal sculpture--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1200
Title
Copper tweezers, crescent pinchers, spirals.
Description
The Tarascans embellished their crescent shaped tweezers with hammered spirals. They were worn as emblems of status or authority.
Subject
[Decoration and ornament--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1200
Title
Copper tweezers, crescent pinchers, spirals.
Description
The Tarascans embellished their crescent shaped tweezers with hammered spirals. They were worn as emblems of status or authority.
Subject
[Decoration and ornament--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1200
Title
Copper tweezers, crescent pinchers, spirals.
Description
The Tarascans embellished their crescent shaped tweezers with hammered spirals. They were worn as emblems of status or authority.
Subject
[Decoration and ornament--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1200
Title
Copper tweezers, crescent pinchers, spirals.
Description
The Tarascans embellished their crescent shaped tweezers with hammered spirals. They were worn as emblems of status or authority.
Subject
[Decoration and ornament--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1200
Title
Tweezers, crescent pinchers : plain.
Description
Tweezers were formed from a single sheet of copper and folded over at the top. The mirror images joined in the middle had to be formed or cut out of a sheet of copper. The crescent-shape ends were hammered convex before folding.
Subject
[Aztec sculpture--Mexico, Metal sculpture--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1201
Title
Tweezers, crescent pinchers : plain.
Description
Tweezers were formed from a single sheet of copper and folded over at the top. The mirror images joined in the middle had to be formed or cut out of a sheet of copper. The crescent-shape ends were hammered convex before folding.
Subject
[Aztec sculpture--Mexico, Metal sculpture--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1201
Title
Tweezers, crescent pinchers : plain.
Description
Tweezers were formed from a single sheet of copper and folded over at the top. The mirror images joined in the middle had to be formed or cut out of a sheet of copper. The crescent-shape ends were hammered convex before folding.
Subject
[Aztec sculpture--Mexico, Metal sculpture--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1201
Title
Tweezers, crescent pinchers : plain.
Description
Tweezers were formed from a single sheet of copper and folded over at the top. The mirror images joined in the middle had to be formed or cut out of a sheet of copper. The crescent-shape ends were hammered convex before folding.
Subject
[Aztec sculpture--Mexico, Metal sculpture--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1201
Title
Three obsidian winged labrets : C.
Description
Obsidian, a volcanic glass-like stone cleaves concavely. Working obsidian requires great skill. The process involves core flaking, pressure flaking, drilling, abrading as well as polishing. It is very labor intesive. Two of the labrets have been inlaid with a white material.
Subject
[Labrets, Jewelry--Mexico, Decoration and ornament--Mexico, Stone carving--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 152
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