Taino Black Stone Petaloid Celt / Hand Axe

Pre-Columbian, Dominican Republic, Taino/Ciboney peoples, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. A massive ceremonial stone celt or axe head, hand-carved from a mottled brown and black stone. The petaloid axe has a sle

Pre-Columbian Taino of Ciboney peoples, Dominican Republic, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. A lovely celt, or ceremonial hand axe, hand-carved from a green stone with dark inclusions. The petaloid axe has a thin

**Originally Listed At $150** Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, ca. 1 to 800 CE. A mottled grey, white, and black hard stone, smoothed and carved from a celt (hand axe) form into a godly fig

Taino Petaloid Celt, a remarkable undecorated axe that holds both historical and cultural significance. Size: 12'' x 3.25'' x 2'' (30 x 8 x 5 cm). Highly polished and crafted from colorful stone, thes

**Originally Listed At $300** Pre-Columbian, Caribbean Islands / Florida, Taino or Arawak peoples, ca. 15th century CE. A set of 2 hand-carved stone tools that were perhaps utilitarian in nature. Firs

Pre-Columbian, Mayan Territories, Classic Period, ca. 250 to 900 CE. A beautiful dark green stone celt (hand axe) with an incised design of a human head wearing a serpent's head - or possibly being de

A Taino culture stone celt. Greater Antilles, c.900-1500 AD. Wide polished deep blue / black stone measuring 8.5" high, 3.5" wide, 1.25" deep. Museum mounting. Provenance: Purchased Throckmorton Fine

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Mexico, Oaxaca, ca. 2000 to 0 BCE. A short-bodied, thin stone celt or hand axe, made to cut through foliage and dig into the earth, and composed of a beautiful

Pre-Columbian, Caribbean area, perhaps Dominican Republic, Taino (Arawak) Indians, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. A hand-carved stone celt depicting an abstract avian creature on the obverse face. The bird domi

Pre-Columbian, Southern Mexico to Guatemala, Olmec, ca. 1150 to 550 BCE. A lovely hand axe known as a "celt," hand-carved from a mottled emerald green stone with light and dark inclusions. The tool ha

**Originally Listed At $75** Pre-Columbian, Mexico, Yucatan peninsula, ca. 2000 to 0 BCE. A broad stone hand axe, also known as a celt, with a rounded body and wide blade, made to be used for chopping

**Originally Listed At $350** Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Tairona culture, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. A hand-carved stone celt or axe with a double headed body. The central part of the stone is indented, and t

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, ca. 1 to 800 CE. This jadeite celt (hand axe) has an incredible color - such a dark green it is almost black, with tiny dark brown

Black stone carved ceremonial axe. Taino from the Caribbean Islands. 1000-1500AD. Provenance French collection. 6"L x 2"W

**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

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Dominican Republic, Taino, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. A lovely ceremonial hand axe known as a celt, hand-carved from mottled emerald-green hardstone with dark inclus

Squatting figure with hands at chest, ancestral guardian, polished, showing remnants of red pigment, 12" x 7" x 3 1/2".

aino Stone Anthropomorphic Celt from Hispaniola, ca. 800-1400 A.D. A finely carved gray stone example depicting a stylized human figure clasping his hands on his waist and legs in a fetal position. We

**First Time At Auction** North America, Native American, USA Midwest, Archaic Period, ca. 7000 to 1000 BCE. A grooved stone axe, hand-knapped and smoothed from a black river cobble. The axe has been

**Originally Listed At $500** Pre-Columbian, Guerrero Mexico, Mezcala, ca. 300 BCE. This type of item is known as a hand axe (or celt). The neck, legs, and marks on the body were string cut; the face

Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Incan Empire, ca. 1200 to 1520 CE. A beautiful ceremonial axe head, hand-carved from a mottled green stone with black and dark-brown inclusions. The axe has an oblon

Middle Palaeolithic, 300,000-30,000 BP. A finely knapped hand axe with twist in cross-section; the flint grey in colour with black border and cream lower body; old inked accession details to one face

**Originally Listed At $300** Native American, United States, Archaic to Woodland period, ca. 2000 BCE to 1600 CE (4000 to 400 BP). A great collection of 5 hand knapped stone tools or axe heads known

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Guerrero region, Mezcala, ca. 400 to 100 BCE. An impressive anthropomorphic axe god, hand-carved from a sumptuous mottled green stone with black a