Carved Tube
1200–1519
- Medium
- bone
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 2.6 cm (1 in.); Overall: 15.1 cm (5 15/16 in.)
- Genre
- Jewelry
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Mexico, Oaxaca, Mixtec, 13th-16th century
About
Carved in spiral registers, the ornamentation on this bone tube resembles Mixtec painting, both in codices (screenfold books) and architectural murals.