An impressive Andesite Human Trophy Head, Costa Rica, ca. 1000 - 1500 CE Chains - 18K Yellow Gold measuring eight inches in diameter

measuring eight inches in diameter

with its delicate perfume

while most finds of deep skillets have come from the frontier areas of the Roman Empire

The beads are new and unworn

it gives the wearer pleasant dreams and keeps them immune from infection and contagious diseases

An impressive Andesite Human Trophy Head, Costa Rica, ca. 1000 - 1500 CE Chains - 18K Yellow Gold measuring eight inches in diameterDisembodied human heads are ubiquitous in the Pre Columbian iconography of Costa Rica and neighboring areas of Panama. Accounts make it clear that indigenous peoples practiced taking and displaying human heads as trophies. In this volcanic stone example, the closed eyes and slack mouth suggest death, while the close fitting cap of geometric design may be of fiber as the form suggests twisted cords or a rattan like material. It was thought that taking