Tripartite, bulbous jug with a hollow foot and short neck. The vessel has a medium-sized avimorph head protome. The object has been smoothed on both sides, slurried, primed and painted. Its exterior is lightly polished. Painting and priming are partially eroded. The pottery has a white-yellowish base colour, which was painted red, orange and black-brown on the outside of the vessel. There is a medium-sized, hollow head protome on the body, which belongs to a turkey (meleagris mexicana). Opposite wing and leg motifs also appear. There is a frieze around the neck showing a highly stylised zoomorphic creature. It possibly echoes the avimorph head protome. A horizontal frieze consisting of stepped elements runs along the base of the neck. The base is decorated with three circumferential red-orange bands. The inside of the neck of the vessel has a white-yellowish ground on which two upright, circumferential bands appear. According to Bransford 1881: Sta. Helena ware. According to Lothrop 1926: Nicoya polychrome ware, plumed serpent, type C. Cultural significance: the objects of the Papagayo Policromo group represent the beginning of polychrome painting on a white-yellowish ground in the Gran Nicoya region. The tradition lasted until the Policromo Tardío (1350-1520d.C.). Its decoration shows a strong Mesoamerican influence. This manifested itself in the replacement of lizard and bat themes with depictions of cats of prey and snakes. The ceramics served as supra-regional trade goods. (Künne 2004)