Antiquities, Pre-Columbian & Ethnographic Art

Mexico, Ca. 200 to 500 AD. Carved wearing a thick headband. Facial features include grooved eyes and mouth, and triangular nose. Carved in a dark g

Atlantic Watershed Central Highlands Zone, Middle Period, Ca 400 to 850 AD. Buff clay, burnished and red painted ritual vessel raised up on three hol

Guanacaste / Nicoya Region of Costa Rica, ca. 1 to 400 AD. Dark green jade / jadeite pendant with string-cut features. The name "ax god" c...

Pre-Columbian, from west coast of Central America, Costa Rica/Panama, ca. 700-1500 AD. A set of four depletion gilded tumbaga owls, each perched upon

Late Intermediate Period, Ca. 1000 to 1400 AD. A flattened tool, pointed at the base and with incised geometric bands devices to body. The top has tw

West Mexico, Protoclassic, ca. 100 B.C. - A.D. 250 A hard polished greenstone carved stylized seated figure with openwork arms resting on upraised l

A huge female figure from the ancient Colima, Mexico region, circa 200 B.C. – 200 A.D. This impressive example measures 10" tall (item alone, u...

A fine and relatively large Colima female figure from Pre-Columbian West Mexico, circa 200 B.C. – 200 A.D. This example measures approximately 7 1/4”

Peru, Ca. 800 to 1200 AD. Constructed in sections of sheet metal, attached with thin flat strip staples and depicting a human face wearing a high bri

From Bocono Estado Trujillo, Ca. 1000 to 1500 AD. Dimunutive abstract pinched figure; with wide head and hips, loop hands held to sides. 2-5/8” H, c

Nayarit, West Mexico, Ca. 300 BC to 200 AD. Delicate clay figure of highly stylized form. Overall red painted polychrome painted surface. Molded with

From Bocono Estado Trujillo, Ca. 1000 to 1500 AD. Hollow ceramic bust with broad rectangular head, loop arms decorated in brown and cream colored p

Marajo Island, Para Brazil, Ca. 500 to 800 AD A shallow ritual bowl having two opposing heads on the rim. The fine head of a pig opposite a human hea

Mexico, Ca. 100 BC A carved grayish-green stone of a standing anthropomorphic figure holding his arms across his stomach. Triangular facial features

North central coast, Ca. 1000 to1425 A.D. A colorful section from a panel having two motifs in alternation colors; the top with rhythmic birds, two o

Mexico, Ca. 800 to 1000 AD. Carved veined jadeite depicting a classic Mixtec face with headdress, ear spools and limbs. Pierced at the sides and back

Late period Ca 600 to 900 AD. Wide flared well painted bowl decorated on exterior with two elongated snake like figural depiction’s of male figures s

A fine orangeware Pre-Columbian Maya vessel, circa 600 A.D. - 900 A.D. This vessel is quite large, measuring 8 1/4" tall by about 8" wide,...

A large Maya polychrome tripod plate, circa 600 A.D. - 900 A.D. Museum deaccession. This example measures about 12" across, and includes acryli...

A Maya polychrome vase, circa 600 A.D. - 900 A.D. This example measures approximately 6 1/2" tall by about 5" wide. It exhibits polychrome...