id: 127147 accession number: 1949.469 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1949.469 updated: 2022-01-04 15:39:31.407000 Ceremonial Mace (Club) Head: Feline (Jaguar?), c. 300 BC - AD 600. Costa Rica, Southern Nicoya region, 4th century BC - AD 7th century. Stone; overall: 8.8 x 7.7 x 10.6 cm (3 7/16 x 3 1/16 x 4 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, In memory of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Humphreys, gift of their daughter Helen 1949.469 title: Ceremonial Mace (Club) Head: Feline (Jaguar?) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 300 BC - AD 600 creation date earliest: -300 creation date latest: 600 current location: 233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region creditline: In memory of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Humphreys, gift of their daughter Helen copyright: --- culture: Costa Rica, Southern Nicoya region, 4th century BC - AD 7th century technique: stone department: Art of the Americas collection: AA - Intermediate Region type: Stone find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 8.8 x 7.7 x 10.6 cm (3 7/16 x 3 1/16 x 4 3/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: 35th Anniversary Exhibition opening date: 1951-06-20T04:00:00 35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951). title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; February 23-April 3, 1966. "Treasures of Peruvian Gold."

Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; June 7- September 8, 1991. "Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum." --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 294 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n318 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 294 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n318 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 398 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 10 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n25 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1949.469/1949.469_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1949.469/1949.469_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1949.469/1949.469_full.tif