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Greater Nicoya Jade Necklace
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Greater Nicoya Jade Necklace

This necklace, crafted from irregular jade fragments (500 BC–500 AD), showcases the prized material’s deep green tones and spiritual value in Greater Nicoya culture. Each bead was shaped and polished by hand, emphasizing jade’s symbolic power over life, death, and rebirth. Such ornaments likely adorned elites during rites of passage or ritual ceremonies.
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