https://emuseum.gardinermuseum.com/internal/media/dispatcher/428/fullHuman Head Effigy Vessel500-800Nicoya artist(s)Overall: 34.2 x 33 cm (13 7/16 x 13 in.)Earthenware with pigmentGift of George and Helen GardinerOrigin: Guanacaste, Costa RicaG83.1.1490Large 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.IntermediateCeramics from Ancestral Abiayala[]Ancestral AbiayalaIntermediate181157384NicoyaEarly Period V (500-1000)