From the January 30, 1932, issue
By Science News
MONTE ALBAN TREASURE MAY SET JEWELRY STYLE
The proud inhabitants of Oaxaca, in whose vicinity the Mixtec treasure tomb was found, think they are going to set the worlds jewelry styles. A casual glance at the ornaments and trinkets reveals that archaeology has already influenced modern jewelers.
One of the most beautiful objects found in the Mixtec tomb of Monte Alban is a carved and filigreed breast ornament of gold. The human head with its enormous headdress represents a tiger knight, Senor Case, discoverer of the tomb, said. The fierce gold fangs of the animal are bared. Among the ancient Mixtecs, Aztecs, and other Mexican Indian groups, there were orders of knighthood, as there were in contemporary medieval Europe. Most famous were the tiger and the eagle knights. These American knights wore masks of the symbolic animal of their order, and the mans head protruded from between the animals jaws.