Tripod bowl with an oval mouth. On one narrow side there is a high, cat-like head protome. The short, conical legs have two vertical, narrow openings and rattle beads. The object has been smoothed, sanded and primed on both sides. Its exterior is polychrome painted and polished. The primer and paint are partially eroded. The pottery has several glued fractures. One leg is fragmented. The outside of the pottery has a white-yellowish base colour, which was painted red, orange and black-brown. A black-brown band runs along the edge. The wall is decorated with a circumferential frieze that appears to imitate a cat-like fur pattern. There are wide red bands on the floor. The inside of the object was primed red. According to Lothrop 1926: highland polychrome ware. Cultural significance: the type was produced exclusively in the south of the Gran Nicoya region and traded to the Central Highlands and the Atlantic region of Costa Rica. The pottery is known both from burials and from settlement contexts. It was often associated with the Altiplano Policromo group (1350-800d.C.). (Künne 2004)