Tube-Shaped Bead

Costa Rica, Pre-Columbian

300 BC - AD 600

  • Titles Tube-Shaped Bead (Descriptive)
  • Medium stone
  • Dimensions 5 1/8 x 1/2 in. Diam. (13 x 1.3 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Chandler, AFI.40.1981
  • Work Type bead
  • Classification Objects

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