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**Originally Listed At $400**

Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, ca. 500 to 1200 CE; Mexico, Tlatilco, ca. 1200 to 800 BCE; Gulf Coast of Mexico, Veracruz culture, ca. 3rd to 7th century CE; Ecuador, Jamacoaque culture, ca. 500 CE. A collection of 5 ancient artifacts from several Pre-Columbian cultures - 2 pottery head fragments, a figural pottery mold, and 2 whistles. The larger head is a Veracruz head with a flared headdress and earspools, perhaps used as an incensario. The head in the display case is a Tlatilco visage with impressed pupils. The Costa Rican pottery whistles exhibit either a scorpion and a monkey finial or a human. The final piece is a Jamacoaque pottery figural mold with the motifs impressed into the surface, an orange modern impression of the mold is included as well. Size of Veracruz head: 5.25" L x 5" W (13.3 cm x 12.7 cm)

Provenance: private New York, New York, USA collection

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#173678

  • Condition: Scorpion whistle is repaired, whistle does not function. Large whistle has loss to zoomorphic finial, whistle functions and emits sound. Veracruz head is a fragment of larger piece, losses to facial details and headdress repaired. Mold is intact and excellent- includes modern clay impression. Pottery head in custom display case, fragment of a larger piece as shown. Good preservation to details.

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