Colombia, Tairona dark gray-green stone handled ax
Smoothly polished, dark gray stone ax is of superior quality. Similar stone carved axes are in the Field Museum in Chicago Mason- Archaeology of the Tairona Cultura of Colombia, figs. 2-4, 9 & 12, Chicago 1939. The Tairona Cacique uses this as a symbol of power. The Mound Builder Indians of the Mississippi Basin had similar axes.
Period: Colombia, Tairona, Santa Marta, circa AD700-1500
Media: Stone
Dimensions: Height: 7 1/4" x Width: 4 3/4"
Price Upon Request
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