- ENORMOUS 20TH C. SHIPIBO POLYCHROME
PORTRAIT JARSouth American, Upper / Western Amazon Basin, Ucayali River, Peru, Shipibo people, ca. mid-20th century CE. Wow! A marvelous pottery portrait jar of a tremendous...
[more like this] - CHAVIN POTTERY INCISED JAGUAR VESSEL,
TL TESTEDPre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chavin, Santana-Santa River, ca. 700 to 200 BCE. A delightful ceramic vessel in the form of a stylized jaguar presenting a portly...
[more like this] - CHAVIN TEMBLADERA TRI-COLORED STIRRUP
SHAMAN IN TRANCEPre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, from Tembladera in the Jequetepeque Valley, ca. 1200 to 500 BCE. A rare tri-colored stirrup vessel depicting a shaman engaged...
[more like this] - JAMACOAQUE POLYCHROME MYTHICAL BEAST
VESSEL, TL TESTEDPre-Columbian, Ecuador, Jamacoaque culture, ca. 500 CE. A large ceramic vessel in the form of a transformational beast - probably representing a shaman in...
[more like this] - RARE PETITE VALDIVIA CHORRERA GREENSTONE
JAGUAR MORTARPre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivia-Chorrera culture, Late Formative Period, ca. 1500 to 300 BCE. A gorgeous jaguar mortar of a near-miniature size that is hand-carved...
[more like this] - PUBLISHED CHAVIN STIRRUP VESSEL EAGLE
& JAGUAR**First Time At Auction**
Pre-Columbian, northern Peru, Chavin culture, Jequetepeque-Templadera type, ca. 1200 to 800 BCE. One of the more striking examples of ancient...
[more like this] - CHAVIN STONE JAGUAR MORTAR FOR CEREMONIAL
HALLUCINOGENS...**Originally Listed At $1800**
Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chavin / Cupisnique, ca. 900 to 500 BCE. A fantastical stone metate or mortar stone, carved...
[more like this] - COLIMA REDWARE VESSEL (FOR HALLUCINOGENIC
ENEMA RITES)Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A hand-built pottery vessel of an unusual form on a pedestal foot, all slipped in a rich red hue. The...
[more like this] - SMALL TAINO VESSEL. CIRCA 800–1500
AD. THE VESSELis made from siliceous sandstone. It has two full figure, anthropic forms and an individual head. It was probably used for ritual consumption of a hallucinogen...
[more like this] - SMALL TAINO STONE VESSEL. CIRCA 800–1500
AD. ITfeatures two anthropic heads following the Taino belief in duality. Both heads are similar but different. One smiles the other does not. Nicely carved in precise, relief...
[more like this] - EXCEPTIONAL TAINO, ANTHROPIC VESSEL.
CIRCA800-1500 AD. A masterpiece and technological skill. This finally carved head emerges from one side of the vessel, while legs and lower back shot from the opposite side....
[more like this] - ELABORATE TAINO 2 HEADED SHAMAN'S BOWL,
POSSIBLYfor ceremonial consumption of the hallucinogen cohoba. 6 1/2" long. Pre-Columbian. The paired heads reference duality, the cosmological belief of pair opposites. Both...
[more like this] - TAINO, SMALL FIGURAL STONE LIME VESSEL
WITHanthropic head on front, and legs on opposite side. Pre-Columbian. The bowl is ovate. Possibly contained lime to mix with cohoba. Lime helped to neutralize digestive stomach...
[more like this] - TAINO ANTHROPIC COHOBA VESSEL. HEAD
AT ONE ENDand back legs on opposite side and feet turned under. Sits on 4 knob feet. Silicified sandstone. 3" high, 5 1/4" wide, 2 1/4" deep. From the Taino culture of the...
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