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    Collection Objects
    Art of the Ancient Americas

    Carved bone Awl with the head of a deity

    Artist: Unknown
    Date: 
    A.D. 600–800
    Medium: 

    Bone (probably jaguar ulna) with traces of cinnabar

    Accession Number: 
    2002.124.1
    Culture: 
    Guatemala or Mexico, Maya
    Period: 
    Late Classic Period
    Classification: 
    Tools and Equipment
    Status: 
    Not on view
    Collection Objects
    Art of the Ancient Americas

    Stingray spine

    Artist: Unknown
    Date: 
    A.D. 600–800
    Medium: 

    Spine of a sting ray

    Accession Number: 
    2002.124.2
    Culture: 
    Mexico or Guatemala, Maya
    Period: 
    Late Classic Period
    Classification: 
    Tools and Equipment
    Status: 
    Not on view
    Collection Objects
    Art of the Ancient Americas

    Money Axe

    Maker: Unknown
    Date: 
    A.D. 900–1521
    Medium: 

    Copper

    Accession Number: 
    1958.86.5a
    Culture: 
    Mexico, Oaxaca or Guerrero
    Period: 
    Early to Late Postclassic Period
    Classification: 
    Tools and Equipment
    Status: 
    Not on view
    Collection Objects
    Art of the Ancient Americas

    Ceremonial Blade

    Maker: Unknown
    Date: 
    A.D. 300–900
    Medium: 

    Obsidian

    Accession Number: 
    1958.14.71
    Culture: 
    Mexico, possibly Maya
    Period: 
    Early Classic Period to Late Classic Period
    Classification: 
    Tools and Equipment
    Status: 
    Not on view
    Collection Objects
    Art of the Ancient Americas

    Spindle

    Maker: Unknown
    Date: 
    ca. 1950
    Medium: 

    Wood and fiber

    Accession Number: 
    1958.13.20
    Culture: 
    Mexico, Otomi
    Period: 
    Modern
    Classification: 
    Tools and Equipment
    Status: 
    Not on view
    Collection Objects
    Art of the Ancient Americas

    Prismatic Blade Core

    Artist: Unknown
    Date: 
    1500 B.C.–A.D. 1521
    Medium: 

    Obsidan

    Accession Number: 
    2018.45.155
    Culture: 
    Mexico, or Guatemala
    Period: 
    Early Formative to Late Post Classic
    Classification: 
    Tools and Equipment
    Status: 
    Not on view