Cleveland Museum of Art

Mace Head

Date

c. 200 BCE–100 CE

Medium

stone

Culture

North coast of Peru, Salinar culture

Department

Art of the Americas

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

This handsome object was slipped onto a wooden shaft to form a mace, a club-like weapon used in war. It is unclear, however, whether the ancients used examples as well carved as this one in anything but ceremonial circumstances.

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