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Ceremonial Blades
Colima (Colima or Jalisco, Mexico)
c. 100 CE
- Medium
- Red obsidian
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
- Each approx. l: H.: 15.2 cm (6 in.)
- Culture
- Western Mexico
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Joanne M. and Clarence E. Spanjer Fund; purchased with funds provided by Stuart Handler; Curator’s Discretionary Fund through purchased with funds provided by the Donnelley Foundation; Alsdorf Foundation Fund; O. Renard Goltra Endowment;…
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
