Greenish stone, cut and polished
Ecuador, Valdivia/Machalilla culture, 1.500 to 300 BC
Jaguar mortar
Dimensions: 10 x 26.5 cm
Very good condition
Provenance: old archeologists’ collection
The jaguar represented the prototypical potent alter ego of the shamans of pre-Columbian Central America. It is assumed that objects of this kind served as ritual mortars and also as burial objects for shamans
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This beautiful jaguar mortar of cut and polished greenish stone originates from Ecuador from the Valdivia/Machalilla culture, dating to 1.500 until 300 BC. The strongly abstracted figure of a jaguar is depicted with square body, spiral-shaped winding tail and head with large bare teeth. The corpus is shaped as slightly deepened mortar. The jaguar represented the prototypical potent alter ego of the shamans of the pre-Columbian Central America. It is assumed that objects of this kind served as ritual mortars and also as burial objects for shamans.



The stone mortar is in age-according very good condition with minimal traces of age and wear. The dimensions are 10 x 26.5 cm. (tm)

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