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2. Zuni fetishes - Wikipedia

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   Double stranded Zuni fetish necklace with eagle fetish in center, 40 total fetishes made from turquoise, jet, pipestone, serpentine, mother of pearl, spiny oyster shell. The fetishes are strung on fine sinew strung with olive shell and turquoise heshi (beads), with a hand-made sterling silver clasp and cones. The carver of this object is unknown.

3. Mundamala - Wikipedia

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   Kali (top) wears one of freshly severed heads; while Chhinnamasta (bottom; in center) and her attendants wear a skull-garland. Mundamala ( Sanskrit : मुण्डमाला , IAST : Muṇḍamālā ), also called kapalamala or rundamala , is a garland of severed Asura heads and/or skulls, in Hindu iconography and Tibetan Buddhist iconography .

4. List of mythological objects - Wikipedia

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   Necklace of the Lady of the Lake, a jeweled necklace given to Sir Pelleas after assisting an old woman across a river. It was enchanted so that its wearer would be unfathomably loved. (Arthurian legend) Yasakani no Magatama, a bejeweled necklace of magatamas offered to Amaterasu. One of three Sacred Imperial Relics of Japan. It represents ...

5. Inventory of Elizabeth I - Wikipedia

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   no. 872 A silver gilt tankard set with cameo heads, given in July 1579 to Edward Darcy, groom of the Privy Chamber, on his marriage to a daughter of Thomas Astley, another groom. [21] no. 874 A silver gilt jug shaped like a lion. [22] no. 876 A silver gilt jug shaped like an owl. [23] Cruises (A type of tankard) Stoneware jugs; Salt cellars

6. Human trophy collecting - Wikipedia

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   Human trophy taking in Mesoamerica; Mokomokai: the much-traded and much-collected preserved tattooed heads of New Zealand Maori; The Aghori Hindu sect in India collects human remains which have been consecrated to the Ganges river, making skull cups, or using the corpses as meditation tools.

7. Memento mori - Wikipedia

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   In the late 16th and through the 17th century, memento mori jewelry was popular. Items included mourning rings , [ 16 ] pendants , lockets , and brooches . [ 17 ] These pieces depicted tiny motifs of skulls, bones, and coffins, in addition to messages and names of the departed, picked out in precious metals and enamel .