Jaguar Effigy Vessel

Artist:Greater Nicoya

Medium: Ceramic, pigment

Geograhical Locations:

• Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica

Dates:1000–1350 CE

Dimensions: 13 3/8 x 10 13/16 in. (34 x 27.5 cm)

Collections:

• Arts of the Americas

Exhibitions:

• Life, Death, and Transformation in the Americas
• Climate in Crisis: Environmental Change in the Indigenous Americas

Accession Number: 48.140.2

Image: 48.140.2_view1_acetate_bw.jpg,

Catalogue Description:
Large pear-shaped tripod jar with modeled jaguar features. Two legs and a tail form the tripod supports, and the upper section has an elaborately modeled jaguar head framed by two arms with hands resting on the legs. Practically the entire vessel is covered with painted designs in red, white and black referred to as Pataky Polychrome, Period VI. Condition: good; some of the surface decoration is abraded.

Brooklyn Museum