Functioning as a ceremonial badge of office or of
a clan affiliation, this powerful mace head would
have been mounted in a wooden staff and carried
by its owner. The dramatic image of the monkey
symbolizes the owner’s comparable qualities:
courage and tenacity. To the Ancient Costa
Ricans, the spider monkey was a revered animal,
for it was believed that the monkey was actually
a former warrior. This compelling mace head,
with its imagery that is at once powerfully
primitive and strikingly modern, continues to
radiate its extraordinary energy – from past to
present, it affects us in a most compelling
manner.
- (CK.0725)
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