Eagle Ornament
1200–1519
- Medium
- silver
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 2.2 cm (7/8 in.); Overall: 0.7 cm (1/4 in.)
- Genre
- Metalwork
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
About
An additional ornament probably once dangled from the eagle's beak. Similar jewelry has been found in high status Mixtec tombs at Zaachila and at Monte Albán, a Zapotec site controlled by the Mixtec after about AD 750.