Mace Head
https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.165
Once mounted on wooden shafts, elaborately shaped mace (club) heads like this one probably were not used as weapons. Rather, they could have served as emblems of chiefly authority, group insignia, the heads of ceremonial weapons, or all three. They eventually were placed in el...
Sculpture
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id
155437
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contentType
sculpture
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citation
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rights
CC0
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rightsUri
CC0
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| language |
language
en
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| wikidata |
wikidata
[
"Q79943501"
]
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| source |
source
import
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| accession |
accession
1990.165
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Source image fields (4)
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| largeImageUrl | https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.165/1990.165_web.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.165/1990.165_web.jpg |
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Terms
Culture
Costa Rica
Technique
pecked and polished gray stone
Genre
Sculpture
Department
Art of the Americas
Relations
belongs_to