A Costa Rican Jadeite Profile Monkey Pendant, Classic Period, ca. 300 - 900 CE Vessels - Stone touring USA and Australia

touring USA and Australia

This fine pair of silver cloak pins featuring elaborately decorated finials of conical form above carved bands

and wardapi (sand goanna)

ceramic replicas were used instead as a way of conserving financial resources for the living

the citizens of Palmyra adopted customs and modes of dress from both the Iranian Parthian world to the east and the Greco-Roman west

A Costa Rican Jadeite Profile Monkey Pendant, Classic Period, ca. 300 - 900 CE Vessels - Stone touring USA and AustraliaCosta Rican jade pendants are often in the form of "axe gods," in which an effigy carving of an animal, person, or a combination thereof, surmounts a smooth blade in the form of a polished axe or celt and is drilled transversely for suspension. These celts were not functional weapons, but rather badges of office, status, or clan type affiliation, and were worn on the person as pendants. Purposefully shaped like functional axes or celts, these highly