Mirror with Jaguar or Coyote Mosaic

Mirror with Jaguar or Coyote Mosaic

500–600 CE · Mexico

Iron pyrite, jade, shell, magnatite or ilmenite, and spondylus shell

Art Institute of Chicago · Medieval (500–1500) · CC0 · S. DeWitt Clough and Ada Turnbull Hertle endowments

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