Engraved shell gorget
Triskele style
ad 1300–1450
Marine shell
Tennessee
Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
GM 90.453
The iconography of this gorget is thought to represent cosmogram, with depictions of the Above, Middle, and Below Worlds. The six dots represent the Pleiades constellation.
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