Cleveland Museum of Art

Bowl

Date: c. 600–1100 (Thermoluminescence date, 995–1395)
Medium: ceramic, slip
Culture: Costa Rica, Southern Nicoya region
Department: Art of the Americas
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art

Fine ceramics like this were buried in the graves of the high-status dead, some of them certainly leaders of the several groups that competed in the area. The lid of this bowl features an iguana.

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