Fine Teotihuacan Greenstone Maskette
Fine Teotihuacan Greenstone Maskette
Fine Teotihuacan Greenstone Maskette
Fine Teotihuacan Greenstone Maskette
Fine Teotihuacan Greenstone Maskette
Fine Teotihuacan Greenstone Maskette
Fine Teotihuacan Greenstone Maskette
Fine Teotihuacan Greenstone Maskette
Fine Teotihuacan Greenstone Maskette
Fine Teotihuacan Greenstone Maskette
Fine Teotihuacan Greenstone Maskette
Fine Teotihuacan Greenstone Maskette
Fine Teotihuacan Greenstone Maskette
Fine Teotihuacan Greenstone Maskette
Fine Teotihuacan Greenstone Maskette
Fine Teotihuacan Greenstone Maskette
Fine Teotihuacan Greenstone Maskette
Fine Teotihuacan Greenstone Maskette
Fine Teotihuacan Greenstone Maskette
Fine Teotihuacan Greenstone Maskette
Fine Teotihuacan Greenstone Maskette
Fine Teotihuacan Greenstone Maskette
Fine Teotihuacan Greenstone Maskette
Fine Teotihuacan Greenstone Maskette Fine Teotihuacan Greenstone Maskette Fine Teotihuacan Greenstone Maskette Fine Teotihuacan Greenstone Maskette Fine Teotihuacan Greenstone Maskette Fine Teotihuacan Greenstone Maskette Fine Teotihuacan Greenstone Maskette Fine Teotihuacan Greenstone Maskette Fine Teotihuacan Greenstone Maskette Fine Teotihuacan Greenstone Maskette Fine Teotihuacan Greenstone Maskette

Fine Teotihuacan Greenstone Maskette

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Classic Period, Ca. 300 to 500 AD.

Carved green hard-stone maskette nicely carved details with drilled almond eyes and mouth with large pursed lips, drilled at ears and perforated at top corners. Intact, excellent condition 

This Teotihuacan greenstone maskette is a powerful ritual image rather than a wearable portrait, tied to ideas of sacred ancestry, fertility, and rebirth. Stone masks of this sort were probably not worn on the face; their weight and flat backs instead suggest attachment to perishable effigies, bundles, or shrine structures using side perforations like the ones on this mask.  The drilled ear and lateral holes likely served for lashing the maskette to a larger support or for suspending ear ornaments, feathers, or other perishable regalia.

The standardized Teotihuacan facial type—geometric brow, triangular nose, and slightly open mouth—seems to act as an ideal human or divine visage, not an individual portrait, functioning almost like a canonical emblem within the city’s visual system.

Green stones from Guerrero and related sources were strongly associated with maize, vegetation, and the life‑death cycle, so a small, animated greenstone face could embody concepts of fertility, renewal, or the maize god, especially when “brought to life” with inlays and paint that originally filled the eyes, teeth, and lips.

Size - 3 inches (7.6cm) H.  + custom mount. 

PROVENANCE: Ex Ron Messic Fine Arts, Santa Fe NM sold to  Mr. Barry Fitzsimmons, HI 

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