Rear view | Photographer: Andrea Blumtritt | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalWall sherd from object IV Ca 41131a. The fragment was smoothed, slurried and primed on both sides. Its exterior is painted in polychrome. The pottery has a white-yellowish base colour, which was painted red, brown and black-brown on the outside of the object. The picture fragments belong to a feather motif. According to Bransford 1881: Sta. Helena ware. According to Lothrop 1926: Nicoya polychrome ware. 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)
Cataloguing data
Height: 5,9 cm
Depth: 1,3 cm
Width: 5,4 cm