A Costa Rican Marble Bird Mace Head, Greater Nicoya, Period IV, ca. 300 - 500 CE Funerary & Religious Equipment it gives the wearer pleasant

it gives the wearer pleasant dreams and keeps them immune from infection and contagious diseases

Darwin - Finalist

first published in 1969

the forelegs raised with upright rippling mane and attached flowing tail

The Ancestors are said to have turned into the goannas that now populate the deserts and other regions of Australia

A Costa Rican Marble Bird Mace Head, Greater Nicoya, Period IV, ca. 300 - 500 CE Funerary & Religious Equipment it gives the wearer pleasantCarved from smooth white marble, the round body with a stylized bird head featuring an elongated beak gently carved to indicate a mouth and a raised double head crest along the top of the head. Used as a symbolic object rather than a functional one, mace heads of this type occur in many different materials, sizes, and subjects. Found in most high status graves, mace heads most probably served as identifiers of the person's clan or family through a