Exceptional Day 2 Ethnographic Tribal Fossils

Pre-Columbian, Honduras, Ulua Valley, Maya, Late Classic Period, ca. 550 to 850 CE. A wonderful hand-built blackware pottery vessel with a cylindr...

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. 900 to 500 BCE. An exquisite, finely-carved blue-green jade, miniature Olmec Baby, seated ...

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, Mexico and northern Central America, Maya Territories, Late Classic, ca. 550 to 900 CE. A stunning mottled greenstone mask, made to...

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, Mexico and Guatemala, Peten Basin, Maya Late Classic Period, ca. 550 to 950 CE. An elegant ritual ceramic vessel, cylinder shaped, ...

Pre-Columbian, Mexico and northern Central America, Maya Territories, Late Classic, ca. 550 to 900 CE. A massive "eccentric", hand-knapped from a ...

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, Southern Mexico to Guatemala, Maya, Late Classic Period, ca. 550 to 900 CE. A lovely pottery cylinder with a flat base, tall walls,...

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, Mexico, Guerrero region, Mezcala culture, ca. 500 to 100 BCE. An intriguing example of an anthropomorphic axe god figure, hand-carv...

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, Mexico and northern Central America, Mayan Territories, Late Classic, ca. 550 to 900 CE. A fascinating and rare cylindrical vessel ...

Pre-Columbian, Guatemala, Peten Basin, Maya, Late Classic Period, ca. 550 to 900 CE. A gorgeous hand-built pottery vase with a flat base, tall wal...

Pre-Columbian, Guatemala, Peten Basin, Maya, Late Classic Period, ca. 550 to 900 CE. A hand-built pottery cylinder vessel with a flat base and a t...

Pre-Columbian, Southern Mexico to Guatemala, Maya, Late Classic Period, ca. 550 to 900 CE. A beautiful hand-built pottery cylinder vessel with a f...

Pre-Columbian, Southern Mexico to Guatemala, Maya, Late Classic Period, ca. 550 to 900 CE. A hand-built and highly-burnished pottery cylinder with...

Pre-Columbian, Mexico and northern Central America, Maya Territories, early Post-Classic, ca. 900 to 1200 CE. An incredible disc-shaped limestone ...

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, Chavin, ca. 1200 to 500 BCE. An attractive mortar and pestle of a substantial size, hand-carved from mottled dark...

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chavin, Santana-Santa River, ca. 900 to 500 BCE. An incredible ceramic stirrup vessel in the form of a stylized l...

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 of Peru, Chavin, ca. 900 to 200 BCE. A stunning ceramic Janus-headed beaker representing the power of shamanic transfor...

Pre-Columbian, Northern Peru, Chavin culture, ca. 900 to 200 BCE. An incredibly rare, early example of a Chavin vessel, inspired by Maranon aesthe...

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, North Coast Peru, Chavin, ca. 1200 to 800 BCE. An impressive seashell trumpet with several abstract anthropomorphic figures incised...

Pre-Columbian, north coast of Peru, Lemon Carro, Chavin culture, ca. 900 to 200 BCE. Wow! An absolutely stunning pale red stone cup, cylindrical i...

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chavin, ca. 900 to 500 CE. A finely-preserved cup, hand-carved from mottled dark-brown stone with faint orange an...

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chavin, ca. 900 to 500 BCE. A stunning bowl of a shallow form, hand-carved from dense stone of a dark-brown hue. ...

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chavin, ca. 900 to 500 BCE. A beautiful bowl of a lightly-compressed spherical form, hand-carved from mottled bro...

Pre-Columbian, northern Peru, Chavin culture, Jequetepeqye-Templadera type, ca. 1200 to 800 BCE. One of the more striking examples of ancient pot...

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, from Tembladera in the Jequetepeque Valley, ca. 1200 to 500 BCE. A rare tri-colored stirrup vessel depicting a sh...

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, Ecuador to Chile, ca. 1400 to 1500 CE. Very large deep brown hard stone mortar carved in the form of a six-sided star with deep ci...

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Inca Empire, ca. 1470 to 1532 CE. A rare, well preserved shallow wooden offering bowl, made to be used in ceremonies. Vessels...

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, 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, Southern Peru, Inca hinterlands (Chucu), ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. A rare ceramic plaque of a sizable triangular form with a lightly-con...

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, Loma Negra, ca. 100 BCE to 100 CE. A fine scale consisting of a balance beam and a pair of hemispherical d...

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, North Coast Peru, Moche, ca. 100 to 300 CE. A lovely group of four gilded silver coca spoons (also called lime spoons), used to pre...

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Sican-Lambayeque, ca. 800 to 1000 CE. Fifteen animal votives made from very high quality silver sheet (95% to 96%...

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Inca, ca. 1200 to 1500 CE. A silver kero or drinking vessel hammered into a beaker shape with a flat base and a f...

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Paracas, ca. 500 to 300 BCE. An impressive pectoral comprised of hundreds if not thousands of petite seashells of...

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Viru-Moche Transition, ca. 500 to 300 BCE. Skillfully cut and crafted from copper sheet, a sculptural depiction o...

Pre-Columbian, North Coast of Peru, Sican/Lambayeque, ca. 10th to 11th century CE. A fabulous 14K gold ceremonial mask and an impressive number - ...

Pre-Columbian, Lake Titicaca, Bolivia, Tihuanaku (Tiwanaku) culture, ca. 400 to 600 CE. Rare and striking ensemble of twin silver pectorals. Start...

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Sican-Lambayeque, ca. 800 to 1000 CE. An extremely rare votive plaque comprised of high-grade silver (96% silver)...

Pre-Columbian, North Coast of Peru, Sican / Lambayeque, ca. 10th to 11th century CE. A haunting gilded silver (87% pure) death mask with a broad f...

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, Bolivia, Tiahuanaco (Tiwanaku), ca. 400 to 1100 CE. A handsome, beautifully preserved wooden kero (also qiru, quero, qero), an Ande...

Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Moche, ca. 100 to 300 CE. A lovely cast-copper dagger with an elongated body, a pointed tip, and a curved openw...

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, 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...