A COSTA RICAN JADE FIGURAL PENDANT
A COSTA RICAN JADE FIGURAL PENDANT

ATLANTIC WATERSHED, CA. A.D. 1-500

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A COSTA RICAN JADE FIGURAL PENDANT
Atlantic Watershed, ca. A.D. 1-500
The robust figure, possibly a shaman, with hands to chest and knees bent with large, tapering head, jutting jaw with long tongue, closely-set, sunken eyes and ridged coiffure; in pale grey-green mottled stone with remains of red pigment, pierced through the neck.
Height 2 in. (5 cm.)

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