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UNIQUE BARK BEATER WITH TWO RAISED FACES browse these categories for related items... All Items: Pre-Columbian: Mexico: Pre 1492: item #486100 Please refer to our stock #RFM.53 when inquiring.
$750.00 |
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| Stone bark beaters are rare enough and this one (RFM53), with faces incised on two raised square platforms, is probably unique! Grooved around three edges to strap a bent willow handle, the bottom working face of the 3” long x 1 ¾” wide x 1 ¾” deep tool, designed to pound bark and soften it for wear, as well as being used for book-making by the Aztecs, is grooved and atypically cross-hatched. Marked as being found in Mexico, specific provenance is unknown, but it is believed to date into the Classic to the Post-Classic period, c.600-1500AD. Made from volcaniclastic gray rock, this most rare of a rare tool form is from the local collection of one of the founders of the now defunct Rocky Mountain Institute of Pre-Columbian Studies. The bark beater comes with a small display card and our certificate guaranteeing authenticity. Don’t forget to watch for the additional pieces that will soon be listed under the prefix RFM from this interesting and newly consigned collection. NOTE: if you would like to view a large number of our various listings, and at the same time limit your browsing, try our ‘TWELVE different items on a single page format’ by simply spelling out the word TWELVE in the search box. That will quickly bring up all of our listings that have twelve different items on a page, each individually priced! | ||||||||||
