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@patrickkapty.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 2:32 PM

Double Headed Lizard with a snake in its mouth pendant
cast gold
c. 700-1530 CE
Diquis culture
Costa Rica

#handmade #cast #gold #doubleheaded #bicephalous #lizard #snake #battle #Diquis #culture #Panama #CostaRica #zoomorphic #pendant #jewelry #ancientart #art #precolumbian #precolumbiangold

@patrickkapty.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 3:05 PM

The Moundville Cat Pipe
carved Glendon limestone
c. 1000-1500 CE
Mississippian culture
Moundville, Alabama, USA

#handmade #carved #stone #GlendonLimestone #Moundville #cat #pipe #Mississippian #culture #MoundvilleAlabama #USA #precolumbian #ancientart #art #sculpture #mythology #zoomorphic #effigy

This zoomorphic artifact is the Moundville Cat Pipe, a famous Mississippian-period effigy pipe carved from limestone.The Mississippian culture was an advanced Native American civilization that flourished from approximately 800 CE to the 1600s across the Midwestern and Southeastern United States.
Recovered from the Moundville Archaeological Site in Alabama, USA.
Mississippian culture (dating roughly between 1000–1500 CE).
It portrays a stylized feline (often interpreted as a panther or underwater cat) with bared teeth and coiled, swirling lines around its face.
A heavy ceremonial pipe bowl, featuring a characteristic cavity in its back used for smoking sacred tobacco rituals. The original artifact is currently housed in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University.

@patrickkapty.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 3:51 PM

Northwest Coast Pipe
carved black argillite
c. 1830
Haida culture
Haida Gwaii, BC, Canada

#handmade #carved #argillite #stone #pipe #zoomorphic #design #Haida #culture #HaidaGwaii #QueenCharlotteIslands #BritishColumbia #canada #c1830 #northwestcoast #firstnation #indigenous #artifact #art #carving

@patrickkapty.bsky.social Sep 20, 2026, 1:44 PM

Zoomorphic Hacha
carved stone
c. 500-950 CE
Late Classic
Maya culture
Mexico

#handmade #carved #stone #hacha #zoomorphic #transformation #belief #ritual #mesoamerican #ballgame #Maya #culture #mexico #ancientart #ancientsculpture #ritualobject #ceremonial #precolumbian #prehispanic #art #sculpture

In ancient Mesoamerica (particularly in Maya and Classic Veracruz cultures), an hacha (Spanish for "axe") was a critical piece of ceremonial gear associated with the Mesoamerican ballgame. While lightweight wooden versions were likely worn on the players' heavy belts during active matches, these highly detailed stone replicas were carved for ritual displays, architectural integration, or dedication ceremonies.

@patrickkapty.bsky.social Sep 19, 2026, 1:19 PM

Zoomorphic Mask
carved wood, pigments
late 19th century
Yup'ik culture
Alaska, USA

#handmade #wood #pigments #mask #zoomorphic #shaman #religion #belief #ritual #yupik #culture #alaska #indigenous #people #tribal #art #tribalart #tribalsculpture #sculpture #dancemask #ceremonial #transformation

The Yup’ik people (plural Yupiit) are a group of Indigenous peoples native to western, southwestern, and south-central Alaska, as well as parts of the Russian Far East. Derived from the words yuk ("person") and pik ("real"), the name translates to the "real people". They form the largest single Alaska Native group.
A traditional Yup'ik carved wooden dance or shaman's mask from Southwestern Alaska, featuring characteristic attached limb-like appendages and dual-pigment coloring.
Often incorporates symbolic appendages (such as arms, legs, or feathers) representing spirits (Yua) or transformation narratives in ceremonial dances.
Traditionally carved from local woods like spruce or cottonwood and finished with natural pigments.