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A culture that made cicadas from this material also used it to plug the nine orifices of a corpse. The so-called “New Zealand” form of this (20[1])material was known by the Māori (20[1])as Pounamu (20[2])(“POH-nuh-moo”). This material was used to depict a were-jaguar (20[3])on the Olmec (20[3])Kunz (20[2])Axe (20[1])and (20[1])for a death mask (20[1])for Palenque’s (20[1])Pakal the Great. (20[1])This material (20[1])is often said to be “valued at multiple cities” owing to a story about a (*) disc made of this material dating from the Warring States Period. (10[3])Those bì (“BEE”) discs of this material were made from bamboo drills. It’s not silk, but a maritime “road” (10[1])dispersed this material from a Taiwanese nephrite mine. (10[1])For 10 points, a legendary Chinese emperor (10[2])is named for (10[2])what precious (10[2])green (10[1])material? (10[1])■END■ (10[4])

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