Costa Rican Greenstone Celt and Tumbaga Jaguar Head

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Guanacaste / Nicoya region, ca. 200 to 600 CE; Guanacaste / Nicoya region, ca. 700 to 1500 CE. A beautiful collection of Costa Rican artifacts. First is a tall and slender f

**Originally Listed At $300** Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Guanacaste / Nicoya region, ca. 500 to 1000 CE. A hand-carved stone axe celt depicting a transforming shaman with both human and jaguar feature

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, 300 to 1000 CE. "Stunning" just does not convey how beautiful this stone mace head is. Carved hardstone with numerous colorful inclusions in a mostly black matrx in the form

**Originally Listed At $1000** Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, ca. 200 to 800 CE. A wonderful trio of hand-carved and meticulously polished celt pendants - the short light green example ca

Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, Greater Nicoya or Atlantic Watershed, Period IV, ca. 300 to 500 CE. A hand-carved greenstone mace head depicting an abstract zoomorphic creature, perhaps a

**Originally Listed At $300** Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Guanacaste / Nicoya region, ca. 200 to 600 CE. An axe god pendant (sometimes called a celt pendant) finely carved from a mottled greenstone of

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, ca. 200 to 600 CE. Finely carved and string cut from beautiful jade of mottled seafoam green hues, an axe god representing two animals - an abstract bird form when viewed on

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, ca. 500 to 1500 CE. A pair of stone votive mace heads. Both are made of greenstone, although one has been smoothed more extensively. The smaller of the two - the smoother on

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Atlantic Watershed, ca. 100 to 500 CE. A hand-carved stone grinding platform known as a metate supported atop a quartet of thick feline legs. The rectangular vessel is flank

Greater Nicoya or Atlantic Watershed, Period IV Ca. 300-500 AD. Memorializing an ancestor or representing a deity with large eye orbits and cut toothy mouth in green andesitic basalt. Centrally pierce

This is a Pre-Columbian Costa Rican carved pale green stone ceremonial bird motif mace head. Dating to circa 100-500 A.D. This carving is accompanied by the original COA and receipt from The Lands Bey

A beautiful Costa Rican greenstone pendant, c. AD 300 - 900, in the form of a stylized long beaked bird with human head, body and tail feathers indicated by lines, the beak with beautiful open-work. 2

Costa Rican Stone Mace Head Assortment (5) Pre-Columbian Nicoya style items including an avian form; (2) jaguar heads; an anthropomorphic; and an animal head; all having central holes for the insertio

**Originally Listed At $500** Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Guanacaste / Nicoya region, ca. 250 to 800 CE. A lovely pair of avian axe god celt pendants - the lighter green celt finely carved from jade, t

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Guanacaste/Nicoya regions, ca. 200 to 600 CE. A finely carved axe god with a celt-like blade, a raised squarish torso, string cut wings/beak, a visage comprised of close-set

Costa Rican Stone Mace Head Assortment (5) Pre-Columbian style items including a winged parrot; (2) jaguar heads; a simple spheroid; and a knobbed; all having central holes for the insertion of a shaf

**Originally Listed At $300** Pre-Columbian, Mexico and Guatemala, Maya Territories, Late Classic, ca. 550 to 900 CE (darkest piece); Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, ca. 1 to 800 CE (pales

**Originally Listed At $150** Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, ca. 1 to 800 CE. Finely carved from stone of deep blue-green hues with white inclusions, a celt-shaped bead, drilled laterally

A Costa Rican Jaguar Drum, ca. 400 A.D. A large ceramic drum in the shape of a jaguar, broad toothy mouth, eyes, nose and ears, head resting on front paws, cylinder body tapering to large sound openin

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Linea Vieja, Atlantic Watershed, ca. 600 to 1000 CE. Wonderful greenstone mace head in the form of a human head. Carved and drilled facial features, biconically-drilled hole

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Guanacaste / Nicoya region, ca. 200 to 600 CE. A hand-carved serpentine celt figure of abstract avian form with a blade-form body and a tapered head. Three horizontal notche

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, central highlands, ca. 300 BCE to 500 CE. Beautiful translucent jade avian-form pendant. In the form of a celt with thin blade at lower section, distinct avian form head wit

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, 500 BCE to 500 CE. One side of this celt is carved like a narrow axe or celt; the other is carved into a bird head and torso. It has circular eyes and a wide, downturned bea

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Atlantic Watershed, ca. 800 to 1200 CE. A charming stone metate standing upon a trio of bowed legs with the abstract head of a jaguar projecting from one side. The minimalis