Earthenware bowl with brownish clay body under black slip burnished with white pigment rubbed into incised designs located around shoulder and under rim Bowl has wide mouth with flaring rim and three hollow conical rattle feet

Tripod Bowl

Guanacaste-Nicoya Zone, Pre-Columbian

Late Period VI (1200-1550), Castillo/Engraved (1200-1550)

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Pendant in form of a bat created with open back casting technique with core extracted Figure has outstretched bifurcated wings small erect pointed ears round protruding eyes long flat snout with curled nostrils smiling open fanged mouth with long tongue unfurled onto abdomen feet at bottom of figure each with four curled claws Narrow loop of gold across back for suspension of pendant