EditorialMexica/Mixtec. 15th-16th C. From Mexico. The skull of the smoking mirror. Turquoise, lignite and pyrite. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom.
EditorialMosaic mask of Tezcatlipoca, one of the Aztec creator gods, also the god of rulers, warriors and sorcerers. Alternate bands of turquoise and lignite cover a human skull. The jew is moveable and hinged with leather. The eyes are made of two disks of iro...
EditorialMosaic Disk with a Mythological and Historical Scene. Mixtec; Northern Oaxaca, Mexico. Date: 1401-1500. Dimensions: Diam. 30.5 cm (12 in.). Turquoise, earthenware, stucco, spondylus shell, mother of pearl, and iron pyrite, with pigment. Origin: Oaxaca ...
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.
EditorialMosaic Disk with a Mythological and Historical Scene. Mixtec; Northern Oaxaca, Mexico. Date: 1401-1500. Dimensions: Diam. 30.5 cm (12 in.). Turquoise, earthenware, stucco, spondylus shell, mother of pearl, and iron pyrite, with pigment. Origin: Oaxaca ...
EditorialMosaic Disk with a Mythological and Historical Scene. Mixtec; Northern Oaxaca, Mexico. Date: 1401-1500. Dimensions: Diam. 30.5 cm (12 in.). Turquoise, earthenware, stucco, spondylus shell, mother of pearl, and iron pyrite, with pigment. Origin: Oaxaca ...
EditorialMirror with Jaguar or Coyote Mosaic, A.D. 500/600, Teotihuacan, Teotihuacan, Mexico, M?xico, Iron pyrite, jade, shell, magnatite or ilmenite, and spondylus shell, Diam. 19.1 cm (7 1/2 in.).
EditorialMexica/Mixtec. 15th-16th C. From Mexico. The skull of the smoking mirror. Turquoise, lignite and pyrite. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom.
EditorialMirror Back with Great Goddess, 400-550. Guatemala(?), Escuintla, Teotihuac?n style, Classic Period. Slate, pigment; other side originally inlaid with polished pyrite mirror; overall: 20.1 x 0.2 cm (7 15/16 x 1/16 in.).
EditorialMosaic Disk with a Mythological and Historical Scene. Mixtec; Northern Oaxaca, Mexico. Date: 1401-1500. Dimensions: Diam. 30.5 cm (12 in.). Turquoise, earthenware, stucco, spondylus shell, mother of pearl, and iron pyrite, with pigment. Origin: Oaxaca ...
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.
EditorialMosaic mask of Tezcatlipoca, one of the Aztec creator gods, also the god of rulers, warriors and sorcerers. Alternate bands of turquoise and lignite cover a human skull. The jew is moveable and hinged with leather. The eyes are made of two disks of iro...