The above piece is displayed in a blog post about deYoung Museum (San Francisco) and its permanent collection. This is a Mixtec work that they have in their collection displaying some amazing work with the tiling or placement of the "tesserae" pieces to create the lines that indicate the birds head and eye shapes on the handle of the decorative blade.
This work seemed to mimic others we've seen in recent studies not only in the concept of using smaller pieces to create one larger overall image, but in simplicity of the mosaic concept, using small pieces to make any sort of look, whether that is one that is abstract, animal like this one or otherwise. Mixing that level of intricate artwork with such funtionality like in this blade is another hallmark we have seen like in the decorated vessels, etc. These functional items do not require any sort of decoration, they simply could be left as is to do their job, but instead they were made to have a beauty and an intrinsic value while they performed their function as well.
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