Exceptional Day 2 Ethnographic Tribal Fossils

Pre-Columbian, Mexico, Olmec culture, ca. 6th to 3rd century BCE. A manopla, a fascinating and rare stone artifact from the ball game, with a semi...

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chavin culture, ca. 1000 to 200 BCE. A hand-built and highly-burnished brownware pottery vessel of a lovely form ...

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A fantastical copper tumi with a long, thin shaft, an ovoid blade, and a terminal in the form of ...

Pre-Columbian, central highlands of Peru, Inca culture, ca. 1350 to 1500 CE. By far the most well known and "popular" of the pre-contact South Ame...

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 to 300 CE. An elegant black wooden tupu, an ancient Andean version of a brooch or shawl pin, with ...

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Jalisco, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. An impressively large, seated figure of a pregnant woman. She wears a skirt and a neck...

Pre-Columbian, Mexico City region, Aztec, Post-classic Mexico, ca. 1300 to 1500 CE. A dramatic coiled rattlesnake, carved from black basalt, with ...

Pre-Columbian, Central Mexico, Aztec empire, ca. 1300 to 1500 CE. A wonderful terracotta incensario of a clever design comprised of an openwork ol...

Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, Guanacaste / Nicoya region, ca. 200 to 600 CE. An absolutely gorgeous celt which is hand-carved from a...

Native American, Alaska, Kuskokwim River, probably Alaskan Athabaskans, ca. 19th century CE. A skillfully carved wooden bowl with tiered interior ...

Native American/First Nations, British Columbia, Canada, Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka), ca. 19th century CE. A handsome, large deer bone pipe with a fan...

Native American, Pacific Northwest Coast, Nuu-chah-nulth people (Nootka), ca. 19th century CE. A fascinating wooden bowl, made to be used in heali...

Native American, Plains Indians, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. A sweet pair of beaded leather moccasins, lane-stitched with sinew and gl...

Native American, Alaska, Inuit, ca. 1920s CE. A beautifully-carved red cedar totem pole with an attached plinth with a flat base. The pole portion...

Native American, Pacific Northwest Coast, Haida or Tlingit peoples, ca. 1920's CE. A totemic statue, hand-carved from finely-grained cedar, attach...

Native American, Northwest Coast, Vancouver Island, Nuu-chah-nulth, ca. 1930s CE. An impressive rain hat comprised of woven cedar bark in a double...

Native American, Pacific Northwest Coast, ca. mid 20th century CE. A handsome and imaginative wooden totem pole featuring a series of stacked anim...

West Africa, Burkina Faso, Nunuma peoples, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. A fascinating wooden mask with graphic facial features including an o...

Central Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Salampasu peoples, ca. early 20th century CE. A dramatic hand-carved wooden mask with a copper-c...

Central Africa, Gabon, Upper Ngoume River area, Punu peoples, ca. early 20th century CE. A lovely hand-carved wooden mask depicting the head of a ...

Central Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lega peoples, ca. early 20th century CE. A hand-carved wooden figurine used for ceremonial perfo...

Oceania, Polynesia, Tonga Islands, ca. 18th to 19th century CE. A massive wooden feast bowl, with a long, low profile, made using a stone adze. Th...

Oceania/Polynesia, Hawaiian Islands, ca. 18th century CE. A colossal feast bowl of an oval form, carved from a single piece of wood with a stone a...

Oceania, Fiji Islands, Viti Levu Island, ca. 19th century CE. A very rare and lovely bowl, carved from beautiful ironwood in the form of a turtle ...

Polynesian, Tahiti, ca. 19th century CE. A beautifully weathered wooden bowl standing on four stout legs, with a long, boat-like symmetrical form ...

Polynesia, Samoa Islands, ca. 19th century CE. An enormous wooden kava vessel in the form of a sea turtle. The circular receptacle is supported up...

Oceania, Fiji Islands, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. A beautiful example of this distinctive double-headed war club known as a "sali." S...

Oceania, Papua New Guinea, ca. early to mid-20th century CE. A hand-carved betel nut mortar, of a tall cylindrical form, fused to the head of a st...

Oceania, Papua New Guinea, East Sepik River region, Iatmul peoples, ca. early 20th century CE. An intriguing example of a human skull which has be...

Oceania, Papua New Guinea, ca. mid 20th century CE. A delightful, colorful dance costume, made of large triangular bark panels, each painted with ...