Description:

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, Protoclassic period, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE; Guatemala, Maya, Late Classic Period, ca. 550 to 900 CE; Valley of Mexico, Mixtec people, ca. 1200 to 1500 CE. A collection of 7 stone beads, pendants, and a mace head, each hand-carved and heavily worked into polished and smooth pieces. The 5 beads are laterally drilled for suspension and include 2 slender greenstone tubes, a red jasper, and 2 quartzite beads. The gray pendant is a Mixtec figure with stylized anthropomorphic body formed via string cut lines. The Colima mace head is hand-carved from a mottled grey-brown stone with light and dark inclusions. The weapon has a large hafting hole in the center and thick walls carved with three rows of raised bulbs. Size (mace): 1.75" Diameter x 1" W (4.4 cm x 2.5 cm)

Provenance: private Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA collection; ex-private Arkansas, USA collection, via descent in 2021; ex-private Florida estate, USA, acquired from the 1960s to 1970s

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  • Condition: Chips and nicks to beads and mace. Light mineral deposits on mace head. Overall good condition.

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