1992, Peter Canby, The Heart of the Sky: Travels Among the Maya, page 53:
His face was covered with a mask of jade, white shell, and obsidian. He wore a cape, earflares, and rings. A royal belt of jade with flint pendants lay on top of the sarcophagus.
2003, Matthew G. Looper, Lightning Warrior: Maya Art and Kingship and Quirigua, page 130:
The lower jaw of each serpent is replaced by an assemblage composed of an irregular shape with two spots, from which are suspended a mat, two beads, and an earflare (out of which emerge three additional earflares), followed by textile strips.
2005, Lila Perl, The Ancient Maya, page 26 (image caption):
A Maya figure is depicted with earflares, a type of ear ornament.
2007, Handbook of the Collections: Princeton University Art Museum, page 121:
The earflares, with long central shafts, reflect his high status.
2009, Matthew G. Looper, To Be Like Gods: Dance in Ancient Maya Civilization, page 64:
Each of the lords is already dressed in jade earflares, Jester God crowns, collars, wristlets, knee bands, and feathered anklets studded with jade beads.
2020, Cameron L. McNeil, "Favored Plants of the Maya", in The Maya World (ed. Scott Hutson), page 194:
Rulers are at times depicted with flowers in their headdresses (Reents-Budet 1994: 348, Figure 76), and jade earflares are often in the form of flowers connecting them to concepts of fertility.