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Jade Jade and Other Stones from the Maya Cultures of Central America Click Photos To Enlarge |
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 An example of Maya ornamental use of Jade From the Movie Apocalypto |
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Maya masks |
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Central Maya area Late Formative (Preclassic) Period 500 BCE - 1 CE Jadeite |
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Sun God head Central Maya area Early Classic Period 250-550 CE Jade | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mayan Jade Mask Pectoral - Honduras Private Collection object - unknown provenience
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Guatemala - Maya Greenstone Mosaic Mask - 28 cm. in height. - Classic Lowland MayaInstitute of Anthropology and History, Ministry of Culture and Sports of Guatemala
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Maya Ruler Pacal's Jade Death Mask, Palenque,
Mexico 800AD
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Maya Jade Mosaic Mask |
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Jade Mosaic Mask from Calakmul | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Maya Jade Mask from Rio Azul |
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Maya Jade Mosaic Mask |
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Jade portrait head
inscribed with glyphs -
Maya, Late Classic period
(AD 600-800) From Comayagua, Honduras - Height: 15.2 cm Width: 10 cm This Maya head was carved from a single block of jade. The eyes were probably inlaid originally, with shell or other materials. Representations in ceramics, mural paintings, stone and other media suggest that such heads were mounted on a belt worn by Maya rulers. They were made of jade, shell, obsidian or other stone and was set above a group of three flat celts (axe-heads). A series of glyphs, arranged in three columns, are carved at the back of the head, and two on top. Although they are partly eroded and the dates are illegible, the glyphs provide surprising information about its origin. A passage of the text refers to a person related to the Maya city of Palenque. We know that the mother of Yax Pac, the sixteenth ruler of Copán (AD 763-810), was from Palenque. It is likely that this head came with her as a prized heirloom. During the eighth century, the Comayagua region was linked to Copán; it is possible that the jade head made its way there as gift to a local lord or as a piece looted at a later date. Christy Collection at the British Museum |
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Guatemala - Maya Greenstone Mask - 10 to 17 cm.. in height. -Preclassic Lowland MayaInstitute of Anthropology and History, Ministry of Culture and Sports of Guatemala
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Maya Polished Stone Mask - Guatemala
500 AD to 900 AD Private Collection object - unknown provenience [1] |
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Maya Jade Funerary Mask with inset eyes and teeth | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Maya Palmas/scepters/staff heads |
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Ceremonial Handle (?),
9th–13th century - Mexico; Maya-Toltec (?) Jade (jadeite/omphacite); H. 5 1/2 in. (14 cm)
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Maya Jade Palma/Scepter - Honduras Private Collection object - unknown provenience [1]
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Maya Belt Ornaments |
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Jade Royal Belt Ornament ca. A.D. 400-500
- Possibly Guatemala - Early Classic period (A.D. 250-600) - Pale gray-green
jade - H: 9 1/8 in. (23 cm.) Jade belt ornament originally formed part of a royal costume that included a belt assemblage consisting of three such pendants. One side represents a full-length profile portrait of a young Maya ruler richly attired in the regalia associated with enthronement. Dark spots on his body signify the supernatural, and allude to Hunahpu, one of the Hero Twins of Maya mythology. Smaller spots on his cheeks and nose and a whiskerlike element at the corner of his mouth symbolize his kinship with the jaguar, the feline associated with the night. He wears a jaguar-skin skirt overlaid by a royal belt incorporating elaborate paraphernalia that includes a mask surmounted by a skull (a reference to death) and three celt-shaped plaques, as the one described here. A rope extends from the belt down the leg and supports a small figure of Chac, the rain god. The complex headgear incorporates a ferocious skull, jade beads, and a jester god mask, the symbol of rulers. On the reverse, the principal elements of the incised glyphic text include the presentation of an object (perhaps a badge or a celt) to the ruler portrayed here, possibly called Machaak, and a date suggesting that his death ("he entered the water") took place nine days after the presentation of the object. The Maya believed that at death an individual entered the watery Maya Underworld (Xibalba) before being reborn in the afterlife and rejoining the sky. |
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Maya Deity / Royalty Pendants |
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Maya Jade Deity Pendant - Guatemala
300 AD to 900 AD Private Collection object - unknown provenience [1]
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Maya Jade Deity Pendant - Guatemala Private Collection object - unknown provenience [1]
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Jade Ornament Mexico or Central America, Maya style (250-900) Cleveland Museum of Art |
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Jade Ornament Mexico or Central America, Maya style (250-900) Cleveland Museum of Art |
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Maya Jade Deity Pendant Private Collection object - unknown provenience [1]
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Late Classic Maya Southwest region Sun God pendant, A.D. 750850 Jadeite H. 1 5/8" (4.1 cm); W. 7/8" (2.2 cm)
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Late Classic Maya, Nebaj style
Plaque, A.D. 750850 Jadeite H. 5 1/2" (14 cm); W. 3 3/8" (8.6 cm)
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Head Pendant, 6th–9th
century Guatemala; Maya Jade (jadeite); H. 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection
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Honduras - El Cajon
Cobble Pendant -Personal Ornament Jade - Approx. 2-5 cm. in height. - Late
Classic Lenca/Maya Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia
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El Salvador - Maya Carved Jade Pendant |
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Jade deity head pendant
Maya - Guatemala - Ht. 1 3/4" 250 450 AD |
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Jade Ornament Mexico or Central America, Maya style (250-900) 250-900 Cleveland Museum of Art |
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El Salvador - Maya Carved Jade Pendant
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El Salvador - Maya Carved Jade Pendant
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Maya Jade Plaque | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Maya Jade Figure Pendant | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Maya Jade Figure Pendant |
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Maya Hunchback pendants |
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Honduras - El Cajon
Cobble Pendant - Personal Ornament Jade - Approx. 2-5 cm. in height. - Late
Classic Lenca/Maya Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia
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Honduras - El Cajon
Cobble Pendant - Personal Ornament Jade - Approx. 2-5 cm. in height. - Late
Classic Lenca/Maya Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia |
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Honduras - El Cajon Cobble Pendant - Personal Ornament Jade - Approx. 2-5 cm. in height. - Late Classic Lenca/MayaInstituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia
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Honduras - El Cajon Cobble Pendant - Ornament
Jade - Approx. 2-5 cm. in height. - Late Classic Lenca/Maya Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia |
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Jade Hunchback Pendant Plaque - Mexico or
Central America, Maya, 4th-7th Century Cleveland Museum of Art |
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Maya Glyph Pendants |
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Mayan Polished Stone Pendant With Incised
Glyphs - Guatemala
500 AD to 1000 AD Private Collection object - unknown provenience
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Mayan Polished Stone Pendant With Incised
Glyphs - Guatemala
500 AD to 1000 AD Private Collection object - unknown provenience
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Jade Ornament Mexico or Central America, Maya style (250-900) Cleveland Museum of Art |
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Maya Pectorals |
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Jade plaque of a Maya
king -
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Classic period (AD 600-900) - Found at Teotihuacan, Mexico - Height: 14 cm Width: 14
cm
Architecture, ceramics and other lines of evidence indicate that there were contacts between Teotihuacan in the Mexican highlands and the Maya area (for example, at Tikal and Kaminaljuyu) by the third century AD. The nature of this contact, however, is far from clear. The scene on this plaque, carved in the so-called 'Nebaj style', shows a Maya lord or ruler seated on a throne with a smaller figure at his feet. The lord wears earplugs, a large pectoral, armlets, wristlets, a belt with a mounted head and a zoomorphic headdress decorated with long feathers. On his left arm he carries a shield with a representation of the Jaguar God, a god of the Underworld. The plaque is broken around the edges, which may indicate that it was reused. |
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Jadeite Pectoral from the Mayan Classic period. (195mm high) |
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Maya Necklaces |
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JADEITE NECKLACE
Jadeite beads and pendant, spondylus shell Maya Mexico, Central America Herbert S. and Sonia Bleeker Zim Collection
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JADEITE NECKLACE Jadeite beads Maya Mexico, Central America |
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Guatemala
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Jade Necklace. - Preclassic through Postclassic
Lowland Maya Institute of Anthropology and History, Ministry of Culture and Sports of Guatemala
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JADEITE NECKLACE Jadeite beads Maya Mexico, Central America Herbert S. and Sonia Bleeker Zim Collection |
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Maya Ear adornments |
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Guatemala
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Jade Ear Plug -
3.5 to 9 cm. in height. - Preclassic
through Postclassic Lowland Maya Institute of Anthropology and History, Ministry of Culture and Sports of Guatemala
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Pair of Earflare Frontals,
3rd–6th century,
Guatemala; Maya Jadeite; H. 2 in. (5.1 cm) |
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Maya Ear Spool |
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Guatemala - Maya Jade & Greenstone Plugs and Beads. - Classic Highland MayaInstitute of Anthropology and History, Ministry of Culture and Sports of Guatemala
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Honduras - El Cajon Jade Disc - Personal
Ornament Jade - Approx. 2-5 cm. in height. - Late Classic Lenca/Maya Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia |
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Honduras - El Cajon Plate Pendant - Personal Ornament Jade - Approx. 2-5 cm. in height. - Late Classic Lenca/MayaInstituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia |
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JADEITE PENDANT
Jadeite Maya Mexico, Central America Herbert S. and Sonia Bleeker Zim Collection
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Late Classic Maya Beads Private Collection object - unknown provenience [1] |
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Jade Head Ornament Cleveland Museum of Art |
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Guatemala
- Maya
Jade Pendant/Bead
- 3 to 6.5 cm. in height. - Preclassic
through Postclassic Lowland Maya Institute of Anthropology and History, Ministry of Culture and Sports of Guatemala
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Maya Shell Pendant |
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Polished Stone Bar Bead Mexico or Central America, Maya style (250-900) - jadeite and albite and modern black pigment Cleveland Museum of Art |
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Maya Jadeite Pendant - Guatemala
500 AD to 1000 AD Private Collection object - unknown provenience [1]
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Guatemala
- Maya
Jade Pendant/Bead
- 3 to 6.5 cm. in height. - Preclassic
through Postclassic Lowland Maya Institute of Anthropology and History, Ministry of Culture and Sports of Guatemala
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Maya Jade Turtle - Guatemala Private Collection object - unknown provenience |
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Guatemala - Maya Greenstone Animal
Figurine - 15 cm. in length. - Lowland Maya Institute of Anthropology and History, Ministry of Culture and Sports of Guatemala
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Maya Figurines & other statuary |
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Honduras - El Cajon Jade
Figurine - Jade -Approx. 2-5 cm. in height. - Late Classic Lenca/Maya
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Head of the Maya sun god Kinich Ahau, from Belize - 9 3/4 pounds 6 inches tall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Deity Figure, 3rd–6th
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Maya Flint & obsidian blades |
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Maya Eccentric Flint Blades Private Collection object - unknown provenience
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Late Classic Maya Eccentric flint, A.D. 600850 Flint H. 3 1/2" (8.9 cm); W. 2 3/4" (7cm) Dumbarton Oaks Collection |
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OBSIDIAN FLAKE
Carved obsidian Maya Mexico, Central America Herbert S. and Sonia Bleeker Zim Collection
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El Salvador - Maya Eccentric Flint Blade |
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Late Classic Maya Onyx Blade Private Collection object - unknown provenience
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Eccentric Flint Guatemala, Quirigua, Maya style (250-900) Eccentric flints are so-called for their unusual shapes, among them intricately silhouetted figures like this one. At the forehead of the main profile face is a smoking torch, the insignia of a deity (known today as God K) closely linked to rulers. Smaller faces appear on three protrusions. Some flints perhaps served as scepters; they also were buried as offerings beneath buildings and sculptures. Cleveland Museum of Art |
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Maya Guatemala Ht. 5 1/4" AD 600 - 900 |
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Maya Guatemala Ht. 6" AD 600 - 900 |
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Chipped Flint Axe Mexico or Central America, Maya c. 250-900 Cleveland Museum of Art
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Mayan Eccentric Flint in the form of a Serpent - Classic to Early Post Classic Period, Ca. 600 to 900 AD. - Weathered tan chert |
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Mayan Eccentric Flint - Classic to Early Post Classic Period, Ca. 600 to 900 AD. - Weathered tan chert
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Maya Utility Objects |
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Carved Polished Stone Vessel Northwest Honduras, Ulúa Valley, 8th-10th century 700-1000 Cleveland Museum of Art |
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Maya Alabaster Vessel Private Collection |
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Maya Burial Objects |
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Jade Jars from Tikal from Structure 5D–73, Burial 196
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Jade Jars from Tikal from Temple 1, Burial 116 |
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