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Atlantic Watershed Basalt Sukia Figure - PF.3127
Origin: Costa Rica
Circa: 1000
AD
to 1550
AD
Dimensions:
13" (33.0cm) high
Collection: Pre-Columbian
Style: Atlantic Watershed
Medium: Basalt
$9,800.00
Location: United States
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| Description |
Pre-Columbian Art - From the depths of the
Costa Rican jungle, this sukia figure has emerged
along with a fascinating religious concept. The
sukia figure is most probably a shaman: a tribal
medicine man or wizard. He is shown playing a
flute, smoking or blowing and sucking through a
tube. All of these ritual activities were carried out
by shamans in Pre-Columbian Central America,
but the latter two activities best describe what
these seated figures are doing, perhaps as part
of a curing ritual. Due to the fact that some of
these figures have recently been excavated near
Carlago leads us to believe that were produced
for ritual services. Although they may vary in
different sizes, the pose is virtually identical. One
might speculate that such sculpture was kept in
indigenous domiciles for much the same reasons
that a crucifix is hung on the walls of many
modern Costa Rican homes. The shaman's eyes
are softly closed in a meditative state and his lips
gently surround the tube that his hands and
fingers perfectly hold in place. The composition
of the figure is simple, yet radiates a tremendous
aura of divinity and sanctity, similar to the
Buddha figures of Eastern Asia.
- (PF.3127)
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