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Axe God Pendant


Guanacaste-Nicoya, Period IV
300-700 CE
9.53 cm x 4.76 cm x 1.27 cm (3 3/4 in. x 1 7/8 in. x 1/2 in.)
greenstone
PC.B.223

Not on view


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Bibliography
Balser, Carlos 1953 El Jade Precolombino De Costa Rica. Museo Nacional, San Jose , Costa Rica. fig. 43.

Benson, Elizabeth P. 1963 Handbook of the Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art. Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C., p. 34, cat. 170.


Exhibition History
"Indigenous Art of the Americas", National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, November 1952 to April 1962.


Acquisition History
Formerly in the collection of Carlos Balser, San Jose, Costa Rica

Purchased from Earl Stendahl, Los Angeles (dealer), by Robert Woods Bliss, 1949

Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art, Washington, DC, 1949-1962

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Pre-Columbian Collection, Washington, DC.


Object Last Modified: 11/16/2023