Human Head Effigy Vessel
Artist
Nicoya artist(s)
CultureNicoya
OriginGuanacaste, Costa Rica
PeriodEarly Period V (500-1000)
Date500-800
MediumEarthenware with pigment
DimensionsOverall: 34.2 x 33 cm (13 7/16 x 13 in.)
DescriptionLarge Nicoya head vessel, Early Period V, with pedestal foot. The rounded body moulded with a human head, pointed chin, ridged eyes, and wearing perforated ear-spools. It also has a wide flaring opening and flattened rim forming the top of the head. While the cheeks have an interlocking angular fret design. It is painted in deep reddish-orange and black, on a pale orange ground with centipedes below the eyes and on the chin and other geometric decoration.
Credit LineGift of George and Helen Gardiner
Object numberG83.1.149
Classifications
Ancestral AbiayalaSub-classification
IntermediateCollections
Status
Not on view
Artist / Maker: Nicoya artist(s)
1200-1400
Object number: G83.1.147
Artist / Maker: Bahía artist(s)
500 BCE - 200 CE
Object number: G83.1.223
