Mace Head
-200–100
- Medium
- stone
- Dimensions
- Overall: 11.2 x 8.9 x 8.3 cm (4 7/16 x 3 1/2 x 3 1/4 in.)
- Genre
- stone
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
North coast of Peru, Salinar culture
About
This handsome object was slipped onto a wooden shaft to form a mace, a club-like weapon used in war. It is unclear, however, whether the ancients used examples as well carved as this one in anything but ceremonial circumstances.