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characteristic of Nicoya polychrome traditions
3 cm)Provenance:
Thermoluminescence testing indicates that the head is a later historic replacement dating to approximately the 18th–19th century
Florida (Judith Biener Collection)
Pre-Columbian Jama-Coaque Pottery Jaguar Maskette characteristic of Nicoya polychrome traditionsPre Columbian Jama Coaque Pottery Jaguar Maskette Ecuador, ca. 300 BCE500 CE This expressive Jama Coaque pottery maskette depicts a supernatural feline being, likely representing a jaguar or jaguar human transformation figure. The face is rendered with bulging eyes, a broad feline nose, prominent fangs, and a protruding tongueiconography closely associated with shamanic power and spiritual transformation in ancient Ecuadorian belief systems. Traces of
