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Two tripod dishes, five pottery vessels, one Peccary effigy knob, five effigy supports from pottery vessel, one feline effigy metate, one figure, one seated figure (sukia)

800–1400 CE
Earthenware, earthenware with slip paint, or stone (basalt?)

Classification: Sculpture

Culture: Atlantic Watershed culture, Costa Rica

Findspot: Altantic Watershed, Costa Rica

Period: Late Period V - Period VI

Accession number: 2011.2084-2095, 2011.2448

Provenance/Ownership History: About 1905, excavated by members of the Lindo Family on the Lindo Brothers’ coffee plantation in Juan Viñas, between the cities of Limón and San José, Costa Rica; about 1910, brought to the United States by Daisy Lindo Lewis (late Daisy Voorhis, b. 1883 – d. 1964) and kept in her homes in Wheeling, WV, Cambridge, MA, and South Yarmouth, MA; 1964, by descent to her daughter, Doris Lindo Lewis Henríquez (b. 1909 – d. 1995), West Palm Beach, FL; 1995, by descent to her daughter, Sydney Lewis Glover, and Denis Glover, Chatham, MA; 2011, gift of Denis and Sydney Glover to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 25, 2012)

Gift of J. Denis Glover and Sydney L. Glover