Object Image

Head Lime Container

Credit: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979
6th-9th century
Shell (spondylus), sheet gold, green, blue inlays, wood, yarn
4.1 x 2.5 x 2.2 cm
1979.206.620
Image © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Permanent collection