Ceremonial shamanic spoon used for the inhalation... Lot 28

Ceremonial shamanic spoon used for the inhalation of hallucinogens prior to the ceremonies. It's carved with a stylized snake head. Cloudy green jadeite with some sculpted veins pierced and polished with luminous and aquatic reflections. Olmec culture of Costa Rica, 500-100 BC 14.7 x 3 cm Provenance: Sale Castor Hara, Paris Drouot, sale of 4 June 2013, No. 15 in the catalogue Bibliography: Unpublished masterpieces, Pre-Columbian Art, Mexico and Guatemala, Gerald Berjonneau and Jean Louis Sonnery, Edition Arts Paris, 1985, p. 42, fig. 21 for a close copy.