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Costa Rican Jade Mask - PF.3180
Origin: Costa Rica
Circa: 100
AD
to 500
AD
Dimensions:
2.5" (6.4cm) high
x 2.125" (5.4cm) wide
Collection: Pre-Columbian
Medium: Jade
$4,000.00
Location: United States
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| Description |
This mask touches and exhilarates centers of life
beyond our present reality. It serves as a means
of transforming the ordinary to the
extraordinary, the natural to the supernatural.
The mask has always been used as a ritual agent
of transformation in Meso-America. The ritual
wearer of this mask, the shaman, not only
represented the God; he was the God. He
manifested the life force. Through that ritual
transformation joining the worlds of spirit and
nature, man and god fused in the zone of
mysterious transition marked by the mask itself.
This mask is the seat of the soul, where the
outer and inner worlds meet. We are left to
ponder over the mysteries of the Universe
hidden behind this mask, and the awakened
insights it has brought to our own inner spirits.
Skillful carving and drilling techniques
distinguish this light green jade pendant. It
depicts an abstract face with a headdress. The
carving is controlled and precise. The "beak" or
nose of the face is most probably rich with
mythological significance that is symbolic of a
bird. The eyes have traces of a stone, which was
inlaid into the face creating a lively mask. Worn
on the chest of a shaman or chieftain-shaman,
this pendant aroused awe of the person who
wore it and remains an intriguing work of art
today.
- (PF.3180)
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