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Carved Tube
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About this work
Carved in spiral registers, the ornamentation on this bone tube resembles Mixtec painting, both in codices (screenfold books) and architectural murals.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineCarved Tube, c. 1200–1519. Mexico, Oaxaca, Mixtec, 13th-16th century. Bone; diameter: 2.6 cm (1 in.); overall: 15.1 cm (5 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of John Wise, 1949.196
