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Spoon
Spoon
Spoon

Mesoamerican

Costa Rica

Spoon, 600 - 900 CE

Not on view

Jade
Dimensions7 1/8 × 3 1/4 × 1/2 in. (18.1 × 8.3 × 1.3 cm)
Gift of Barry Fitzmorris, 2011.213
This Mesoamerican jade spoon may have been used to hold hallucinogenic snuff—ground tobacco—taken to induce a trance-like state that was important during transformation rituals or other shamanistic ceremonies. It could have also served as a receptacle for blood drawn during sacrificial rites performed by the elite to honor their ancestors, appease the gods, or guarantee the fertility of the earth.

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