Description:

Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Tairona culture, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. A beautiful example of a drug implement known as a coca spoon that is hand-carved from mottled red and white brecciated jasper. The slender tool features a shallow bowl used for grinding lime powder to mix with coca leaves, a plug-form handle or grip, a tapered body carved with a contiguous spiraling groove, and a narrow tip that perhaps bore a point at one time. Size: 6.625" L x 0.8" W (16.8 cm x 2 cm); 7.6" H (19.3 cm) on included custom stand.

Provenance: private New York, New York, USA collection; ex-private J.H. collection, Poway, California, USA

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#169725

  • Condition: Repairs to underside of bowl as well as roughly 1.5" of lowest point, with small chips and light adhesive residue along break lines. Minor nicks and abrasions commensurate with age, with small chip to 1 side of bowl. Nice surface smoothness throughout.

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