Carved Tube

Cleveland Museum of Art

Carved Tube

Date
c. 1200–1519
Medium
bone
Culture
Mexico, Oaxaca, Mixtec, 13th-16th century
Department
Art of the Americas
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art

Carved in spiral registers, the ornamentation on this bone tube resembles Mixtec painting, both in codices (screenfold books) and architectural murals.

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