Jade bead necklace / Mesoamerican

Essay/Description

Jade necklace. Consists of thirty-seven beads.

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Anthropology Item Information

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Title(s):

Jade bead necklace

Culture:

Mesoamerican

Date:

Unknown

Period:

Mesoamerican Prehistoric

Place:

Guerrero, México

Materials/Techniques:

jade

Dimensions:

Overall: 11 in. (27.9 cm)

Classification:

Archaeological Objects

Object Type:

Necklace

Accession No:

55.164

Department:

Anthropology

Collection:

Kravis Discovery Center

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adornment, Art, Ceremonial, Guerrero, jewelry, Kravis Discovery Center, Mesoamerica, Mesoamerican, Mexican, México, necklace, Precolumbian, Pre-Columbian

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 bead necklace. 55.164. Kravis Discovery Center. Unknown. Tulsa: Gilcrease Museum, https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/55164 (05/25/2017).

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