Three Costa Rican Jade Bird-Celt Pendants, Guanacaste-Nicoya zone Late Period IV, ca. A.D. 1-500

comprising a dark green avian-headed figure with arms folded, the long beak-mask on the chest with recessed drilled pupils, and tiered headdress; a tall pale blue avian celt of slender form, and a smaller large-beaked avian with a small creature atop; each drilled laterally for suspension. 

Máximo Acosta Soto Collection
Acquired from the above by the present owner's family in 1959

San Diego, Fine Arts Gallery and Society of San Diego, February- March 1969

First two intact, the last, smaller pendant has a clean break and repair laterally at the suspension hold line.
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