Cleveland Museum of Art
Ceremonial Mace (Club) Head: Bird (Male Curassow?)
- Date
- 300 BCE–600 CE
- Medium
- stone
- Culture
- Costa Rica, Southern Nicoya region
- Department
- Art of the Americas
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Probably once mounted on wooden shafts, these objects could have served as symbols of chiefly authority, group insignia, the heads of ceremonial weapons, or all three. They eventually were placed in elite graves. The bird may be a male curassow and the feline, a jaguar.
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