Ceremonial Grinding Stone (metate) with Jaguar Head

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CultureGreater Nicoya

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Ceremonial Grinding Stone (metate) with Jaguar Head

Date500–1000 AD

Probable placeNicaragua

Probable placeCosta Rica

MediumVolcanic stone

DimensionsOverall: 16 1/2 × 14 1/2 × 37 in. (41.9 × 36.8 × 94 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Director's Accessions Endowment, the Friends of Pre-Columbian Art, and J. Landis Martin in honor of Bill Walker and Matthew R. Simmons at "One Great Night in November, 1990"

Object number90.424

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Department

Art of the Indigenous Americas

Object Type

CEREMONIAL OBJECTS & REGALIA

ProvenanceDick Buckman collection, New Orleans; [Shango Galleries, Dallas, until 1990]; purchased by MFAH, 1990.
Exhibition History“Fangs, Feathers, and Fins: Sacred Creatures in Ancient American Art,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 15, 2014–March 22, 2015.

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