Eccentric Flint

A.D. 600–900

Chipped flint

6.2 × 0.9 × 15.4 cm (2 7/16 × 3/8 × 6 1/16 in.)

Gift of the Olsen Foundation

1958.15.18.f

Geography:

Belize

Status:

Not on view

Culture:

Belize, Maya

Period:

Late Classic Period

Classification:

Arms and Armor

Provenance:

Fred H. Olsen (1891–1986), and Florence Quittenton Olsen, Guilford, Conn.; gift in 1958 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography:

Edward H. Thompson, “The High Priest’s Grave, Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico,” Anthropological Series, Field Museum of Natural History 27, no. 412 (1938).

Edwin Shook and Alfred V. Kidder, Mound E-III-3, Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1952).

William R. Coe, Piedras Negras Archaeology: Artifacts, Caches, and Burials (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 1959).

David M. Pendergast, Excavations at Altun Ha, Belize, 1964–70 (Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1982).

George A. Kubler, ed., Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1986), 133, 290, no. 293, fig. 144.

Harry F. Shafer and Thomas R. Hester, Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America: An Encyclopedia, eds. Susan T. Evans and Daniel L. Webster (New York: Garland Publishing, 2001), 135–137.

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.