EditorialMexica/Mixtec. 15th-16th C. From Mexico. The skull of the smoking mirror. Turquoise, lignite and pyrite. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom.
Editorialflint ax fragment with oval cross-section and very clear longitudinal facets. Rupture surface and top used as striking surfaces. Incorrectly polished, here and there and small cavity with cortex, in the middle a square hole (pyrite crystal?). Gray-brow...
Editorialflint ax, with oval cross-section and three longitudinal facets on one side and pointed, topped top. Finely sharpened. Mottled flint, dark gray. One corner of the cut recently damaged. Near the top a square hole (negative of a pyrite crystal?), Ax, sto...
Editorialcut-part of heavy ax of dark gray, pyrite-containing quartzite with round-oval cross-section and somewhat oblique cut, ax, stone, 9,4 x 6,9 cm, prehistoric -4000.
EditorialVz: head of man with halo and profile to left, gem, intaglio, lapis lazuli, Color: blue with pyrite inclusions, Shape: oval, standing, Processing:, Method of construction:, 11.5 x 9 mm, D. 3 mm, wt. 0.45 gr., 17th or 19th century 1600-1900.
EditorialMexica/Mixtec. 15th-16th C. From Mexico. The skull of the smoking mirror. Turquoise, lignite and pyrite. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom.
EditorialMexica/Mixtec. 15th-16th C. From Mexico. The skull of the smoking mirror. Turquoise, lignite and pyrite. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom.
EditorialMonkey Vessel, 10th?13th century, Mexico, Mesoamerica, Mixtec, Onyx marble, pyrite, shell, H. 7 1/2 x W. 5 x D. 5 1/2 in. (19.1 x 12.7 x 14 cm), Stone-Containers, The ancient Mexicans used many kinds of stone for the manufacture of ritual and sumptuary...
EditorialMetals including magnetic iron ore grit and crystals, pyrite crystal group, pyrite with petrified Ammonite fossil, markasite, bloodstone and copiapite. Chromolithograph from Dr. Aldolph Kenngott's "Mineralogy" section in Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert'...
EditorialMexica/Mixtec. 15th-16th C. From Mexico. The skull of the smoking mirror. Turquoise, lignite and pyrite. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom.