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Museum Quality Costa Rican Pre-Columbian Pottery – Tripod Cup with Mammals
$198.00
Code: PCCR038
Size: 8 3/4" x 7 3/4” (22.5 x 19.5 cms)
This tripod cup with climbing mammals on each leg (possibly martins, or coatimundi) is an example of a multitude of such pottery vessels set on a tripod found all over today’s Costa Rica. Such vessels would have contained either cacao, or maize 'chicha' - all important beverages for the aboriginal cultures of the past as well as today’s indigenous people.
Huetar Archeological Region (Central Valley and Caribbean watershed, Costa Rica), CE 750-900.
All of the pre-European reproduction pieces in the Namu collection are faithful replicas of such authentic objects (in gold, jade, pottery and stone) seen in the exhibition halls of Costa Rica's world class national museums in San Jose.
Size: 8 3/4" x 7 3/4” (22.5 x 19.5 cms)
This tripod cup with climbing mammals on each leg (possibly martins, or coatimundi) is an example of a multitude of such pottery vessels set on a tripod found all over today’s Costa Rica. Such vessels would have contained either cacao, or maize 'chicha' - all important beverages for the aboriginal cultures of the past as well as today’s indigenous people.
Huetar Archeological Region (Central Valley and Caribbean watershed, Costa Rica), CE 750-900.
All of the pre-European reproduction pieces in the Namu collection are faithful replicas of such authentic objects (in gold, jade, pottery and stone) seen in the exhibition halls of Costa Rica's world class national museums in San Jose.