White Jadeite carved fish.
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The Kingdom of Nicoya (from Nahuatl: Nekok Yaotl), also called Cacicazgo or Lordship of Nicoya, was an indigenous nation that comprised much of the territory of the current Guanacaste Province, in the North Pacific of Costa Rica. Its political, economic and religious center was the city of Nicoya, located on the peninsula of the same name, which depends on several provinces located on both banks of the Gulf of Nicoya, as well as numerous tributary villages. In the 16th century, prior to the arrival of Europeans, Nicoya was the most important chiefdom of the North Pacific of present-day Costa Rica. This necklace is composed of different sizes of carved green jade beads, with a large bar-shaped light green jade pendant at center front. Costa Rica, a tropical country of environmental and biological diversity, is located between Nicaragua to the north and Panama to the south in lower Central America. With Mesoamerica, Costa Rica is one of the two regions in which jade was extensively carved in Precolumbian times. The earliest known carved jade jewelry from this culture is from about 100 BCE, and they continued to carved jade extensively until about 700 CE, when the culture moved away from jade to a preference for gold ornaments.

Beaded Necklace with Bar Pendant
jade
300–700 CE
Nicoya
Guanacaste province, Costa Rica

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