A Costa Rican Marble Bird Mace Head, Greater Nicoya, Period IV, ca. 300 - 500 CE Jewelry - Beads otherwise intact and in good

otherwise intact and in good condition overall

Yirrkala bark painting is finer

particularly around the shoulder area

Sydney1995 SOFA

some minor losses that do not detract

A Costa Rican Marble Bird Mace Head, Greater Nicoya, Period IV, ca. 300 - 500 CE Jewelry - Beads otherwise intact and in goodCarved 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