Mayan flared, convex face plugs made out of amber sourced from the Chiapas (Simojovel) region of Mexico. The amber from this region can be difficult to source and sometimes prohibitively expensive for quality material. We've done our best to leverage cost and quality to bring these beautiful examples to fruition. Amber is traded by the gram with the cost going up exponentially the larger the material.

These sets are largely free of inclusions, fissures etc. (although a few sets do contain them) and represent what the majority of the amber from Mexico looks like in terms of color. Color ranges from a pale yellow in the smaller pieces, to a deeper golden color in the larger, more saturated sizes.

Amber develops an immense amount of static electricity while being worked or by simply rubbing it against cloth. The ancient Maya believed that amber thus had magical properties and used it for protection and ritual. They established mining techniques and traded this "gemstone of the sun" amongst themselves and other outlying cultures. The age of the material used for these sets of plugs based on general scientific evidence about the amber of this region is approximately 22 million to 26 million years.

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Unfortunately due to labor and material costs we cannot offer customer discounts on this item.