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A Costa Rican Decorated Stone Metate, ca. 800 - 1200 CE Funerary & Religious Equipment is featured in the book

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is featured in the book Bindibu Country (1975)

separately made

jade represented the first green shoots of fresh growing maize

Restrung and presented on custom mount constructed to museum standards

“Etruscan-Campanian Antefixes and Other Terracottas from Italy at the Johns Hopkins University

A Costa Rican Decorated Stone Metate, ca. 800 - 1200 CE Funerary & Religious Equipment is featured in the bookThe metate is a type of grinding platform found in the ancient Americas; its forms vary from simple utilitarian to highly decorated ceremonial models. The curved grinding plate on this volcanic stone metate is decorated on the underside in raised relief with a central stylized figure having a human body and rectangular head, with the front leg incorporated as a long snout. The edge of the plate features a wide herringbone border. The plate stands on

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