Description

Shaman and Staff Amulet

A beautiful cut of jade replicating an oft-explored theme in the region’s jade designs: a powerful shaman with his staff , which can transform into a serpent, upon a type of throne. A power piece is there ever were one!

Seen coming out of the jade production of these jadeite-working cultures of the Guanacaste region and northern Caribbean watershed of present-day Costa Rica.

• Size: 2 1/2″ (6.5 cm) long
• Central American jadeite
• 500 BC – 800 AD