Seated figure (sukia)
800–1400 CE
FindspotCosta Rica
Medium/Techniquestone (basalt?)
DimensionsOVERALL Height x width: 12.8 x 6.6 cm (5.0 x 2 5/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of J. Denis Glover and Sydney L. Glover
Accession number2011.2095
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Not on viewClassificationsSculpture
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ProvenanceAbout 1905, excavated by members of the Lindo Family on the Lindo Brothers’ coffee plantation in Juan Viñas, between the cities of Limón and San José, Costa Rica; about 1910, brought to the United States by Daisy Lindo Lewis (later Daisy Voorhis, b. 1883 – d. 1964) and kept in her homes in Wheeling, WV, Cambridge, MA, and South Yarmouth, MA; 1964, by descent to her daughter, Doris Lindo Lewis Henríquez (b. 1909 – d. 1995), West Palm Beach, FL; 1995, by descent to her daughter, Sydney Lewis Glover, and Denis Glover, Chatham, MA; 2011, year-end gift of Denis and Sydney Glover to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 25, 2012)
400–800
AD 800–1400
800–1400 CE
AD 800–1550
A.D. 300–700
A.D. 1100–1520
600–850
A.D. 1200–1521
300 B.C.–A.D. 300
300 B.C.–A.D. 300