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<p>[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 4320746, member: 111"]Eh, to my eye, has a sort of pre-Columbian look to it. Just some random thoughts - when I see a '0900' mark like that on silver (is this made of silver?), usually think South American, often Colombian - but this looks to me more like a modern interpretation of a Caribbean Taino zemi/cemi god with petroglyphs. Pretty much all I've got, and don't have much time, but did poke around a bit to see if there might be something similar from the related South American Arawak, but still keep coming back to Taino - here is a sort of similar bone Taino spatula:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.finch-and-co.co.uk/artwork-detail/813336/18676/caribbean-dominican-republic-taino" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.finch-and-co.co.uk/artwork-detail/813336/18676/caribbean-dominican-republic-taino" rel="nofollow">https://www.finch-and-co.co.uk/artwork-detail/813336/18676/caribbean-dominican-republic-taino</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353188[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 4320746, member: 111"]Eh, to my eye, has a sort of pre-Columbian look to it. Just some random thoughts - when I see a '0900' mark like that on silver (is this made of silver?), usually think South American, often Colombian - but this looks to me more like a modern interpretation of a Caribbean Taino zemi/cemi god with petroglyphs. Pretty much all I've got, and don't have much time, but did poke around a bit to see if there might be something similar from the related South American Arawak, but still keep coming back to Taino - here is a sort of similar bone Taino spatula: [URL]https://www.finch-and-co.co.uk/artwork-detail/813336/18676/caribbean-dominican-republic-taino[/URL] [ATTACH=full]353188[/ATTACH] ~Cheryl[/QUOTE]
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