Rim sherd of a bowl. The fragment was smoothed on both sides, slurried, primed, painted and polished. The object has a white-yellowish base colour, which was painted red, black and orange. The inside of the body shows a central, circumferential (?) frieze bordered by horizontal black lines. It is made up of several panels. The visible panel shows a bundle of arrows, alluding to the man-jaguar theme. Below the frieze, two deep, circumferential (?), red-orange bands appear. 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 manifests itself in the replacement of lizard and bat themes with depictions of cats of prey and snakes. The variant is considered a diagnostic indicator for the first half of the Policromo Medio (1350-800d.C.). Its ceramics served as national trade goods. The fragment comes from a cemetery consisting of around 30 tumuli. (Künne, 2005)