1. (Jeffrey Smith per Keith Wilson, July 1, 2008) Jewelry added as secondary classification.
2. (Susan Kitsoulis per Keith Wilson, May 3, 2010) Title changed from "Pendant (pei 珮): mask (taotie 饕餮)" to "Animal mask shaped pendant"; object name from "Pendant: mask (taotie 饕餮)" to "Jewelry." Added "with traces of cinnabar" to medium description.
3. (Jeffrey Smith per Keith Wilson, May 1, 2012) Late Shang 商 dynasty, Anyang 安陽 period. Title changed to "Pendant in the form of a taotie 饕餮."
4. (Najiba Choudhury per Keith Wilson, September 17, 2019) Title changed from "Pendant in the form of a taotie" to "Pendant in the form of a mask, reworked"; Date changed from "ca. 13th-11th century BCE" to "ca. 1300-1050 BCE"; Geography changed from "China" to "China, probably Henan province, Anyang"; Description changed from "Jade (nephrite) with traces of cinnabar" to "Jade with traces of cinnabar"; Object name changed from "Pendant" to "Jewelry"; and added Chinese Caption by Jingmin Zhang.
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