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Peacock's Eye

The Peacock's Eye or Eye of the Peacock was an elusive diamond once owned by Alexander the Great.

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[edit] History

Alexander had the diamond, approximately 50mm long by 25mm tall, mounted alongside a second as the eyes to a large golden peacock statue. After Alexander's death, one diamond was taken by Indian princes who cut it apart, while the other was believed lost to history before it was rediscovered and clues were left to its whereabouts.

Warning: The following section is ambiguously canon. It contains information that originates in a source that has not been deemed definitively canon.

It eventually became the property of a Chinese Emperor of the Tang Dynasty [1].

Ambiguously canon information ends here.

Following the end of World War I, Indiana Jones and his friend Remy Baudouin went on a search for the diamond in 1919. After meeting anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski, Jones decided that his quest was a wild goose chase, and chose to return home to attend the University of Chicago in order to become an archaeologist; however, Baudouin decided to continue his quest for the diamond, so the friends parted ways.[2]

The Peacock's Eye in 1935.

In 1935, Jones eventually traced the Peacock's Eye to a Chinese gangster named Lao Che when he was contacted by letter offering the diamond as payment[3]. Jones met with Lao in a Shanghai nightclub known as Club Obi Wan to trade the ashes of Nurhachi for the diamond. However, Lao had poisoned the archaeologist's drink in hopes of retaining the diamond while obtaining the ashes. Jones engaged in a mad frenzy to find the antidote, and the diamond was lost to a spilled bucket of ice where it had to be abandoned as Jones escaped from Lao Che's men[4]. However, René Emile Belloq also had an interest in obtaining the diamond around the same time[5], and Jones noted in his journal that had a lead on where to search for it.[6]

In a September 15, 1957 letter to Jones, Short Round claimed to have tracked the Peacock's Eye to Hawaii. According to Short Round, the diamond had fallen into the possesion of a group of natives on the island of Niihau.[7]

[edit] Behind the scenes

The Peacock's Eye from Young Indiana Jones and the Treasure of the Peacock's Eye was long speculated by fans to be the diamond that Indiana Jones is seen trading Lao Che for in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom[8][9]. This idea was made official with the 2008 release of the Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom junior novelization, which reveals the information in its prologue.

The diamond also comes as the "secret relic" with the Indiana Jones, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull figure.

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  1. ↑ Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Sourcebook While not contradictory with any source, the information concerning the diamond is only in The Search for Nurhachi, an RPG campaign specifically designed to be a "what if" where Indiana Jones isn't hired for the recovery of Nurhachi by Lao Che, and as such, events are different.
  2. ↑ Young Indiana Jones and the Treasure of the Peacock's Eye
  3. ↑ Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom junior novelization
  4. ↑ Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
  5. ↑ The Greatest Adventures of Indiana Jones
  6. ↑ The Lost Journal of Indiana Jones
  7. ↑ The Lost Journal of Indiana Jones
  8. ↑ http://www.indyprops.com
  9. ↑ http://raven.theraider.net
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