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ceremonial music
Height: 5 1/2 in
The body displays subtle hand-shaped contours
and painted facial panels
The head is hand-modeled with rounded proportions and a coarse
Pre-Columbian Costa Rican Polychrome vessel ceremonial musicGreater Nicoya (Guanacaste), Costa Rica, ca. 8001200 CE. A large and finely formed ceramic vessel attributed to the Papagayo Polychrome tradition of the Greater Nicoya region in northwestern Costa Rica. The vessel displays a classic globular body rising from a flared pedestal base, culminating in a wide, slightly everted rim. Projecting from the shoulder is a modeled effigy head, likely representing a stylized avian or animal form, rendered with
