Massive head from an anthropomorphic figure. The fragment wears a headdress. It was smoothed, slurried, primed, painted and lightly polished. The primer and paint are heavily eroded. The head has several fractures. The fragment has a white-brownish base colour, which was painted black-brown and red. The flattened shape of the head seems to indicate a skull deformation. The figure wears an elaborate headdress decorated with vertical lines, crosses and diagonal bundles of lines. Symbolic meaning: the object probably symbolises a person of high social prestige. Stevenson-Day (1997) interprets the female sculptures of the Mora Policromo group as shamans. According to Lothrop 1926: highland polychrome ware. Cultural significance: the anthropomorphic figures of the Mora group show greater representational schematism compared to the anthropomorphic sculptures of the zoned bicoloured pottery (Rosales Esgrafiado) and the Policromo Antiguo (Galo Policromo group). The ceramics of the Mora group were produced in the north-west of Costa Rica and traded to the Central Highlands and the Atlantic region of the country. It uses design elements (seated anthropomorphic figures with headdresses, mat motif, Kan cross) that are also known from the Maya ceramics (Copador group) of the Clásico Tardío (900-600d.C.). Similar objects were mainly found in burials. (Künne 2004)