Description:

Pre-Columbian, Southern Mexico to Guatemala, Mayan Territories, Maya, Late Classic Period, ca. 550 to 900 CE. An interesting decorative attachment, hand-carved from a mottled blue-green stone with white inclusions, depicting the head of an abstract avian figure. The bird pendant is defined by a teardrop-shaped head with drilled circular eyes and recessed pupils, a dramatically-flared upper beak supporting a small perforated nodule, a short lower beak, and an integral rectangular bar on the back with a large central perforation. This attachment would have likely been the central pendant on a necklace - strung through the smaller beak nodule - and would have perhaps held a slender perforator in the larger hole for blood offerings. An intriguing pendant from the ancient Maya! Size: 2.6" L x 1" W x 1.8" H (6.6 cm x 2.5 cm x 4.6 cm).

Provenance: private Los Angeles County, California, USA collection, acquired over twenty years ago

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#136028

  • Condition: Original perforator missing. Surface wear and abrasions commensurate with age, minor nicks to perforator hole, beak, and peripheries, and fading to some finer details. Nice earthen deposits within recessed areas. Old inventory label on base.

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