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Pre-Columbian, Mexico to Costa Rica, Maya Territories & Atlantic Watershed / Guanacaste-Nicoya, ca. 100 to 1500 CE. A collection of jadeite and greenstone pendant effigy beads, each pecked and polished into zoomorphs or anthropomorphic beings. The largest is a jade bat, crouching with updrawn legs or wings - perhaps a human-bat transformation, and a smaller serpentine bead is carved into the same pose. The slender bird shaped bead is also serpentine, and the abstract jade human resembles an axe god, while the pale greenstone is perhaps a bird in profile. Each has suspension holes and may have been worn as protective charms. Size of largest: 1.2" L x 0.75" W (3 cm x 1.9 cm)

Provenance: private Matrisciano collection, Thousand Oaks, California, USA, before 2002; ex-Malter Galleries, Encino, California, USA

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#176463

Chips and abrasions to both bat beads. Chip and small loss to drilled hole on greenstone bird. Light mineral deposits on each. Overall good condition.