Dumbarton Oaks - Axe God Pendant

Axe God Pendant

Guanacaste-Nicoya, Period III
500 BCE-500 CE
7.62 cm x 1.59 cm x 0.95 cm (3 in. x 5/8 in. x 3/8 in.)
greenstone
PC.B.234

Not on view

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Bibliography

Benson, Elizabeth P. 1963 Handbook of the Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art. Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C., p. 35, cat. 180.

Exhibition History

"Indigenous Art of the Americas", National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, November 1952 to April 1962.

Acquisition History

Formerly in the collection of Carlos Balser, San Jose, Costa Rica

Purchased from Earl Stendahl, Los Angeles (dealer), by Robert Woods Bliss, 1949

Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art, Washington, DC, 1949-1962

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Pre-Columbian Collection, Washington, DC.