Beast skull
Ref: 0128 Abbreviation: Beast Skull.
Full name: Neolithic Hongshan culture turquoise beast skull.
Data: Weighs 802 grams, is 115 mm high, 125 mm long and 85 mm wide.
Material: Huge turquoise carving. After thousands of years of vicissitudes, it is still as good as new.
Shape: The skull of a carnivorous beast (jackal, tiger, leopard, bear).
Ornamentation: Ornamentation and shape are the same.
Beast skull
Ref: 0129 Abbreviation: Beast Skull.
Full name: Neolithic Hongshan culture turquoise.
Data: Weighs 857 grams, is 115 mm high, 125 mm long and 90 mm wide.
Material: Huge turquoise carving. After thousands of years of vicissitudes, it is still as good as new.
Shape: The skull of a carnivorous beast (jackal, tiger, leopard, bear).
Ornamentation: Ornamentation and shape are the same.
Treatise:
These two skulls of beasts of prey, which are turquoise carvings with long and pointed canine teeth, must be the skulls of carnivorous beasts (jackals, tigers, leopards, bears), which are anatomically significant. ... The ability to hunt beasts of prey is a manifestation of bravery, might, and wisdom, and its skulls are used as aesthetic objects, one is a sacrifice to be offered to the gods, and the other is a prize, which is awarded to a warrior who can fight well, or a martial hero. The third is to use it to "seclude evil".
