CultureGreater Nicoya
Titles
- 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
Not on view
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Department
Art of the Indigenous AmericasObject Type
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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Classic Veracruz
500-700
Earthenware with black pitch (chapopote) and traces of polychrome pigment
63.1
Unknown Central and South American
900–200 BC
Gold
2004.2485
Unknown Central and South American
1900–1960
Volcanic stone
62.20
Unknown Central and South American
100–800 AD
Gold, turquoise, and chrysocolla
2001.955.1,.2