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Function: Transforms the wearer into a supernatural being during ceremonies.
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Patronage: Built by ruler Bird Jaguar IV for his son, who dedicated it to him.
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Theory: Some scholars suggest that the serpent on this lintel and elsewhere depicts an ancestral spirit or founder of the kingdom.
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Form: Made of basalt.
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Form: Made of jadeite.
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Context: Complex outside the city of Cusco, Peru, at the head of the puma-shaped plan of the city.
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Form: The mask has a birdlike exterior face; when opened, it reveals a second human face on the interior.
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