Exceptional Day 2 Ethnographic Tribal Fossils

Pre-Columbian, Maya Territories, probably El Salvador, ca. 600 to 900 CE. Finely carved from basalt, a depiction of Chac Uayab Xoc, the Maya fish ...

Pre-Columbian, Southern Mexico to Guatemala, Olmec, ca. 1200 to 600 BCE. A very large Olmec baby figure, sitting with characteristically 'fleshy' ...

Pre-Columbian, Southern Mexico to Guatemala, Olmec, ca. 1150 to 550 BCE. An extraordinary celt both in size and presentation, hand-carved from a s...

Pre-Columbian, Mexico, Olmec culture, ca. 10th to 6th century BCE. Wow! An incredible carved jadeite figure presenting a human transforming into a...

Pre-Columbian, Mexico, Olmec culture, ca. 1200 to 800 BCE. An incredibly rare, lifelike portrayal of a human figure, probably a child based on its...

Pre-Columbian, Maya Territories, Late Classic, ca. 6th to 9th century CE. One of my favorites! Beautifully preserved, this is a large molded and c...

Pre-Columbian, Maya Territories, ca. 500 to 900 CE. A stone mirror of a perfectly circular form, adorned with the profile image of a deity - perh...

Pre-Columbian, Maya Territories, Proto-Maya, Pre-Classic period, ca. 1000 BCE. Carved from stone of taupe-grey hues with white inclusions, a seate...

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chavin, ca. 1200 to 500 BCE. A grand pectoral created for a Lord-King, comprised of 25 beads cut from human bone ...

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Casa Grande, earliest type of stirrup vessel called "Classic Chavin", ca. 1200 BCE. A stupendous example of the e...

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Inca, ca. 1400 to 1533 CE. A skillfully carved black volcanic basalt vessel, the body of a broad rounded form wit...

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A tall wooden staff with a delightful series of openwork and relief carvings in its upper area, a...

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche Culture, ca. 100 to 700 CE. A handsome, heavy greenstone mortar in the form of a crouching frog, his back h...

Pre-Columbian, southern Peru, Inca hinterlands (Chucu), ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. An enormous plaque of light-grey shale, oblong in form, with an intri...

Pre-Columbian, southern Peru, Inca hinterlands (Chucu), ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. A beautiful stone plaque, of a large and oblong form. The plaque depi...

Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Moche, Phase I to II, ca. 200 to 400 CE. A fabulous mold-formed greyware pottery vessel with a flat base, a lig...

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Paracas culture, ca. 500 to 100 BCE. A bone spatula and spoon, carefully carved by hand, and made for use in shamanic ritual...

Pre-Columbian, Gulf Coast of Mexico, Veracruz culture, from early in the Remojadas period, ca. 100 BCE to 200 CE. An incredible, massive sculptura...

Pre-Columbian, South America, Colombia, Muisca, ca. 1000 to 1550 CE. Expertly cast via the lost wax (cire perdue) process, a gold (75% gold, equiv...

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Earliest Horizon, Valdivian culture, ca. 2300 to 2000 BCE. A finely-carved limestone plaque depicting a highly-abstract ow...

Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Narino culture, ca. 850 to 1500 CE. A huge gold disc featuring a human face with a bulge of coca in one cheek. The gold i...

Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Calima, Early Horizon period, ca. 0 to 100 CE. An extremely large gold disk comprised of 82% gold (equivalent to just und...

Pre-Columbian, Central America, Panama, Veraguas, ca. 1st to 5th century CE. Not one, but two conjoined birds grace this sizeable gold avian penda...

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Huari (Wari), ca. 700 to 1000 CE. An interesting example of a hand-carved wooden kero (drinking cup) with a wide ...

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, Protoclassic Period, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. A lovely, hand-built male pottery figure standing on a pair of sto...

Pre-Columbian, Western Mexico, Colima, Protoclassic period, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. We have seen quite a few Colima puppies in our day, but this ex...

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Jalisco, Ameca type, Protoclassic Period, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. An exceptional hollow-bodied pottery female statue de...

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Nayarit, San Sebastian style, Protoclassic Period, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. A fabulous pair of hand-built and highly-bur...

Pre-Columbian, Mexico, Aztec Empire, ca. 1400 to 1521 CE. I love this one! A gorgeous ancient pale purple and white amethyst snake's head, with tw...

Pre-Columbian, Mexico City region, Aztec, Post-classic Mexico, ca. 1300 to 1500 CE. A striking carved stone handle in the form of a snake's head, ...

Pre-Columbian, Gulf Coast Mexico, Veracruz (Vera Cruz), Nopiloa style, Late Classic Period, ca. 550 to 950 CE. A fabulous hollow-molded pottery fi...

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Guanacaste Nicoya Region, ca. 1 to 500 CE. A wonderful example of a greenstone mace head with its original archaeologic...

Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, Guanacaste/Nicoya region, ca. 200 to 600 CE. An absolutely gorgeous necklace which presents dozens of ...

Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, Guanacaste / Nicoya region, ca. 200 to 600 CE. A beautiful amulet of a hefty size, hand-carved from da...

Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, Guanacaste / Nicoya region, ca. 200 to 600 CE. A beautiful figural amulet which has been meticulously ...

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Guanacaste Nicoya Region, ca. 1 to 500 CE. A wonderful example of a stone mace head, highly polished to a sheen. This o...

Pre-Columbian, South America, Argentina or Chile, Mapuche culture, ca. 1200 to 1700 CE. An intriguing shamanic scepter (known as a "clava") with a...

Pre-Columbian, Central Mexico, Teotihuacan, ca. 800 CE. An elegant, skillfully carved and string cut, anthropomorphic green stone figure with inci...

Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, Atlantic Watershed region, ca. 1st to 5th century CE. An enormous flying panel ceremonial metate, expe...

Augustus Bean (Tlingit, 1850-1926), inscribed "Sitka (Alaska) 1919" on bottom. An exceptional oval feast dish carved from wood and skillfully deco...

West Africa, Nigeria, ca. 200 to 1000 CE. A huge stone carving of a pregnant woman, depicted in a manner that is wonderfully abstract. The woman s...

Oceania, French Polynesia, Marquesas Islands, Enata peoples, ca. first half of the 20th century CE. A fabulous u'u club, hand-carved from iron woo...

New World, Spanish Colonial, Mexico, ca. 18th century CE. A relatively rare hand-carved, finely painted, and gilded wooden Santo depicting one of ...

Latin America, Mexico, ca. 1920 CE. Painted on heavy gauge tin, this ex-voto depicts two brothers who were injured in an accident surrounded by t...

Latin America, Mexico, late 19th to early 20th century CE. Painted on heavy gauge tin, this ex-voto depicts a woman dressed in black and white kne...

Latin America, Mexico, dated October of 1936. Painted on heavy gauge tin, this ex-voto depicts a two gentlemen beside the sickbed of a woman. To t...