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LARGE VALDIVIA CEREMONIAL
CA. 2300-2000 B.C.
This massive and rare solid jade container carved with a stylized feline showing large, ferocious teeth, with a long intricately twisted tail resembling that of a spider monkey, supported on four squat legs; in pale green veined stone.
Such mortars may have been used for the preparation of hallucinogenic substances.