Labret in the Form of an Eagle Head

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Labret in the Form of an Eagle Head

Mexico, Western Oaxaca or Puebla, Mixtec-Puebla or International style, 1200–1500
Metal
Gold
1 × 1 × 1 in. (2.54 × 2.54 × 2.54 cm)
Gift of Constance McCormick Fearing (AC1992.134.29)
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

  • Selections from the Pre-Columbian Collection of Constance McCormick Fearing. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1967.

  • Katzew, Ilona. Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2011.
  • Selections from the Pre-Columbian Collection of Constance McCormick Fearing. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1967.

  • Katzew, Ilona. Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2011.
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  New York: Thames and Hudson, 2003.
  • Fields, Virginia M. Children of the Plumed Serpent: the Legacy of Quetzalcoatl in Ancient Mexico. London: Scala; Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2012.
  • Katzew, Ilona. Miradas Comparadas en los Virreinatos de América. México, D.F.: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia; Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2012.
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