YPM ANT.239845

Ground Stone Mace Head from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History Anthropology Collection. Catalog Number: YPM ANT.239845 Description: Ground stone mace head in the form of a human head. Drilled aperture 2.1 cm. Overall length 16.5 cm.; width 9.5 cm.; diameter 7 cm. Collected prior to 1967; probably dating to 400 A.D., Early Polychrome Period. Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica. Materials: Stone Function: Tools Manufacturing Equipment; Art Culture Group: Latin American : Intermediate Area Locality: North America; Costa Rica; Guanacaste Province Unit of measurement = millimeters 3D Reconstruction performed using Reality Capture version 1.2. 219 images captured by the Computer Operated Photogrammetric Imaging System (COPIS), a project to design and prototype a modular, multi-view imaging system for museum collections. http://copis3d.org/ This work has been made possible in part by support from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the Human Endeavor (award no. HAA-266508-19).