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Group shot: 2011.2084-95

Two tripod dishes, five pottery vessels, one Peccary effigy knob, five effigy supports from pottery vessel, one feline effigy metate, one figure, one seated figure (sukia)

800–1400 CE
FindspotCosta Rica
Medium/TechniqueEarthenware, earthenware with slip paint, or stone (basalt?)
Credit LineGift of J. Denis Glover and Sydney L. Glover
Accession number2011.2084-2095, 2011.2448-2449
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsSculpture
Collections
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, gift of Denis and Sydney Glover to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 25, 2012)
Cache vessel
Cache vessel
A.D. 300–550
Group shot: 1988.1250 (top), 1988.1242 (bottom)
Cache vessel
A.D. 300–550
Standing female effigy
Standing female effigy
100 B.C.–A.D. 200
Dish with four mammiform supports
Dish with four mammiform supports
300 B.C.–A.D. 250
Jar
Jar
A.D. 500–1550
Jar
Jar
A.D. 500–1550
Dish
Dish
A.D. 700–800
Ceremonial drinking vessel
Ceremonial drinking vessel
1300–1521
Group shot: 1988.1213a-b
Base for incense burner (1988.1213a)
A.D. 400–550
Cylinder vase
Cylinder vase
A.D. 650–850
Jar
Jar
A.D. 700–1550
Female effigy rattle and whistle
Female effigy rattle and whistle
A.D. 600–900