Tikal Burial 196 Tomb of the Jade Jaguar - Maya Archaeology

middle joint was a tubular jade bead. Unfortunately the au-
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thor was not able to determine whether the hand was palm up
or down. There were fragments of what looked like a cloth
stretching from over the leg bone, over all the finger bones,
and of course over the jade where it was visible between the
fingers. The jade itself stretched north-south with cinnabar
under it and with specks of cinnabar and some rotted material
over the jade and under the cover cloth. East of the hand
there was cinnabar over the cover cloth.
The jade, with a single collar at each end, is an irregular
rectangle in plan and section. The grooves around
the collar still had cinnabar in them. The 1:1 drawing of
the piece above is 7.5 cm. long and 1.4 cm. wide. The color
varies with most of the patches 2.5G-6/4, 6/6 with a lot of
brown.
Objects in Right Hand Plan #77 117A-64, -82 and -83a
There are no drawings, close-up photographs, or field
notes currently available to the author concerning the three
objects that were under (?) the finger bones of the right
hand. The three pieces were: a flattened, spherical jade bead
with a short groove along one side, greatest dimension 1,
height .6 cm.; a small, roughly spherical spondylus bead, GD
1.2, H 1 cm.; and a bilobed pearl whose broken top may have
perforated.