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Ceremonial Mace (Club) Head: Bird (Male Curassow?)
300 BC - AD 600
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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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- Title: Ceremonial Mace (Club) Head: Bird (Male Curassow?)
- Date Created: 300 BC - AD 600
- Provenance: (Joseph Brummer, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Sculpture
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1949.194
- Medium: stone
- Department: Art of the Americas
- Culture: Costa Rica, Southern Nicoya region, 4th century BC - AD 7th century
- Credit Line: Gift of John Wise
- Collection: AA - Intermediate Region
- Accession Number: 1949.194
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