Maya Stone Hacha of a Warrior, Late Classic, circa AD 550 - 950

Peter G. Wray, Scottsdale, active as a collector in the late-1960s and 1970s

Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, May 10, 1980, lot 264, consigned by the above

Private Collection, acquired at the above auction

The intense and agitated face of the warrior peers from deeply sunken eyes and is covered by the sharply tapered helmet, which is cut away above the ears. The short tenon that forms his neck is a style of hacha associated with similar examples from the Oaxaca region.

See Edwin M. Shook and Elayne Marquis, Secrets in Stone: Yokes, Hachas and Palmas from Southern Mesoamerica, Philadelphia, 1996, p. 122, cat. nos. H64 and H65 for related examples.