Cylindrical leg with wall attachment. The fragment belonged to a large, zoomorphic figurine vessel. The hollow object has two small openings. The ceramic was smoothed, slurried and primed on both sides. Its exterior is painted in polychrome. The primer and paint are heavily eroded. The fragment has been primed twice. It has a white-yellowish covering colour applied to a red background. The outside of the object is painted black-brown and red. The leg decorations show bimorph profile heads, which Lothrop (1926) interprets as "silhouette jaguar, type B". The deep leg sections are decorated with a surrounding frieze and a red horizontal band. The black and brown frieze consists of vertical wavy lines bordered by several horizontal lines. The leg appears to belong to a cat-like creature. Lehmann (1913) associates the pottery with his "Nicarao style." According to Lothrop 1926: Nicoya polychrome ware, animal effigy vessel. Cultural significance: according to Snarskis (1983: 65) and Lange (2003, pers. comm.), the Pataky group displaced Papagayo pottery in the Gran Nicoya region between 1250 and 1150d.C.. Their decoration shows a strong Mesoamerican influence. According to Lothrop (1926), the diagnostic motifs consist of the "silhouette jaguar, type B" and the "plumed serpent, type C". The variant occurs mainly in burials. (Künne 2004)