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THBChavin 18K Gold & Wood Ritual War Clubs - Sodalite Owl
Lot 70f
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Artemis Gallery
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Louisville, CO 80027
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Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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- Lot Description
Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chavin, ca. 500 BCE. A pair of ceremonial war club scepters with high karat gold (~75% gold or 18 karat) covered star-like mace heads - one having a hand-carved sodalite (one of the primary elements of lapis lazuli) owl effigy ornament. The remainder of each form is comprised of a pointed wood extension joined to the finial with wrapped cotton threads. Significantly, the Chavin culture does not seem to have been warlike, and their cultural expansion across the landscape was not violent - at least as far as archaeologists can find - until the very end of the period, when mace fitted clubs like this suddenly become evident. The star form attests to the ancients' reverence for the celestial realm. Examples like this pair were most likely used as symbols of authority, perhaps to accompany the elite in the afterlife. Size: slightly larger club (with lapis owl) 5.5" L x 1.625" in diameter (14 cm x 4.1 cm); 5.5" H (14 cm) on included custom stand; owl measures .625" L (1.6 cm)
The miniature owl-shaped sodalite ornament on one of the ceremonial war clubs is very special. In addition to demonstrating fine workmanship, the owl was widely symbolic in the Pre-Columbian world. Owls were considered Shamanic, guiding humans on their journeys to other worlds, the divine, and death. Sodalite is also known as Poet's Stone, and according to legend, sodalite promotes both creativity and mental lucidity.
The Chavin civilization developed in the northern Andean highlands of Peru from 900 to 200 BCE in the Mosna Valley where the Huachecsa and Mosna rivers merge. The most famous archaeological ruin of the Chavin culture is Chavin de Huantar. Believed to have been built around 900 BCE, this religious center is now a UNESCO world heritage site.
Provenance: private Hawaii, USA collection; ex-private H. J. Westermann collection, Germany
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#139281Expected dents to the gold sheet star maceheads with a few losses to the tips as shown. Some age cracks to the wood club extensions of the smaller club (the one without the owl). Both have old inventory labels. Lapis lazuli owl is very well preserved.Condition
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