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Pre-Columbian, Southern Mexico to Guatemala, Maya, Classic Period, ca. 250 to 900 CE. A rare stone cache container of rectangular form, likely found in a Maya burial, with a central recess meant to hold offerings. Stone cache containers are important in Maya burials because they often contained valuable offerings and ritual objects, serving as a means of communication between the living and the deceased. This example of a cache container includes 6 hand-carved wooden game balls, each of rough spherical form, and each with smooth surfaces indicative of use. Size (cache container): 20" L x 17" W x 11.125" H (50.8 cm x 43.2 cm x 28.3 cm); (largest ball): 3.4" W (8.6 cm)

Provenance: private Hawaii collection, acquired 2000 to 2010

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#148077

  • Condition: Loss to one corner of cache container as shown, with chipping and abrasions around peripheries, and light earthen deposits. Wooden balls with stable fissures across most surfaces commensurate with age, otherwise intact and excellent. Great surface smoothness on wooden balls. Previous inventory label on cache container.

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