id:			126797
accession number:	1949.194
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1949.194
updated:		2020-11-24 10:00:30.851000

Ceremonial Mace (Club) Head: Bird (Male Curassow?), 300 BC - AD 600. Costa Rica, Southern Nicoya region, 4th century BC - AD 7th century. Stone; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of John Wise 1949.194

title:				Ceremonial Mace (Club) Head: Bird (Male Curassow?)
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creation date:			300 BC - AD 600
creation date earliest:		300
creation date latest:		600
current location:		233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region
creditline:			Gift of John Wise
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culture:	Costa Rica, Southern Nicoya region, 4th century BC - AD 7th century
technique:	stone
department:	Art of the Americas
collection:	AA - Intermediate Region
type:		Sculpture
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; February 23-April 3, 1966.  "Treasures of Peruvian Gold."

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PROVENANCE

	(Joseph Brummer, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-1949
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1949-
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wall description: 
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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