1/2″ Sodalite With Aegririne. This Material Is Super Cool! The Black Parts (the Aegririne) Has A Silver

Indonesia ~ Java | Pair of Plugs Ornamented with Figures and Inlaid Stones | Gold | ca. 9th - 14th century (Eastern Javanese period)

Something About Crush From Finding Nemo

Most of those fish come from the Green River formation in Wyoming - a desert lake that would fill and dry up. Some Mosasaur teeth in the final photo.

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Serpentine Rain God Mask

Mixtec. Mexico. 13th to 14th century

Many peoples in ancient Mexico made masks of different types and in a variety of materials. Some depict idealized human faces, others animals or supernatural beings. How the masks functioned is not always clear. Only a few have been discovered in archaeological contexts and life-uses are hard to make out. Face-size examples with holes for eyes and mouth were presumably worn in processions or on ceremonial occasions. Masks with no such openings may have been laid upon the dead; or they might have been tied to statuary or deity bundles, as the holes on the sides of the forehead of this mask suggest. Still others are small enough to be worn as pendants or as part of headdresses. This mask, carved from a light green serpentine, depicts the rain god Tlaloc with the characteristic ringed eyes, prominent teeth, and a mouth with an upper lip-moustache that curls on each side. He also wears a nose bar in the nasal septum.

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Adamite in Limonite pocket - Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico

Garnet, wrapped in a nest of asbestos

Also known as The king of garnets, Demantoid or Andradites are the most expensive of the family, and the gemmier versions practically glow thanks to their unique gemmological properties. They are different to their green cousin Tsavorite (http://bit.ly/1ygBzM5), and vary from a yellowish or brownish green to a deep hue as fine as the best emeralds. They are also known sometimes as Urals emerald, since they were first discovered there in 1868. So far, all the deposits found result from one flavour or another of metamorphism.

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Gold necklace via Greek and Roman Art

Medium: Gold

The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/242834