1. (Jeffrey Smith per Keith Wilson, July 1, 2008) Jewelry added as secondary classification.
2. (Susan Kitsoulis per Keith Wilson, May 4, 2010) Title changed from "Pendant (pei 珮): bird" to "Bird shaped pendant"; object name from "Pendant: bird" to "Jewelry." Added "with traces of cinnabar" to medium description.
3. (Jeffrey Smith per Keith Wilson, May 1, 2012) Late Shang 商, late Anyang 安陽 period, or Western Zhou 周 dynasty. Title changed to "Pendant in the form of a bird."
4. (Jeffrey Smith per Keith Wilson, September 13, 2019) Period and dates changed from "Late Shang, late Anyang period, or Western Zhou dynasty, 11th century BCE" to "Late Shang dynasty, Anyang period, ca. 1300-1050 BCE." China, probably Henan province, Anyang.
5. (Najiba Choudhury, February 5, 2020) Object name changed from "Pendant" to "Jewelry."
6. (YinYing Chen per Keith Wilson, February 15, 2023)
Change date from "ca. 1300-ca. 1050 BCE" to "ca. 1250-1050 BCE."
Change date from "公元前1300-1050年" to "公元前1250-1050年" in the translation field.
Change geography from "China." to "China, probably Henan province, Anyang."
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