Cleveland Museum of Art
Eagle Ornament
- Date
- c. 1200–1519
- Medium
- silver
- Culture
- Mexican, Oaxaca, Mixtec style
- Department
- Art of the Americas
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
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.
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