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Central Highlands

Ceremonial Mace Head

Central Highlands, 100-400

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Central Highlands

Ceremonial Mace Head

Central Highlands, 100-400

Physical Qualities Stone, 3 9/16 × 3 9/16 × 5 5/16 in. (9 × 9 × 13.5 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Alan Wurtzburger
Object Number 1960.30.50
Baltimore Museum of Art. The Alan Wurtzburger Collection of Pre-Columbian Art. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1958, no. 50, page 8.
Stone, Rebecca and William B. Size. Seeing With New Eyes: Highlights of the Michael C. Carlos Museum Collection of Art of the Ancient Americas. Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, 2002: p. 144, cat. nos. 314-325 (315 esp.).

See Laura Wingfield mace heads paper from U. Calgary Chacmool Conference, 2012.

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