Currently not on view
Curved tubular bead with incised depiction of the serpent god,
900–400 BCE
Olmec
Middle Formative Period
y1993-37
Information
Title
Curved tubular bead with incised depiction of the serpent god
Dates
900–400 BCE
Medium
Jade with cinnabar
Dimensions
diam. 3.0 cm., l. 18.1 cm. (1 3/16 x 7 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr., Memorial Collection Fund
Object Number
y1993-37
Place Made
North America, Mexico, possibly Gulf Coast
Culture
Period
Materials
Techniques
- Lois Sherr Dubin, A History of Beads from 30,000 B.C. to the Present (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1987)., cat. no. 253 (illus.)
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1993", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 53, no. 1 (1994): p. 46-95., p. 67
- Michael D. Coe et al., The Olmec World: Ritual and Rulership (Princeton, Princeton University Art Museum, 1996)
