Head effigy vessel CULTURE: Greater Nicoya DATE: 500–1000 CE more object details keyboard_arrow_down Costa Rica (nation) Costa Rican styles Greater Nicoya (Costa Rican styles) Guanacaste (province) Nicoya (inhabited place / Guanacaste) Pre-Columbian (American) anthropomorphic black (color) burnishing (polishing) carving (processes) ceramic (material) circles (plane figures) clay coiling (pottery technique) concentric crosses (motifs) cups (drinking vessels) curves (geometric figures) earrings (jewelry) earspools effigies (funerary sculpture) engraving (action) eyes (animal or human components) face paint (body art / visual works / adornment) faces (animal or human components) figures (representations) firing (technique) funerary objects geometric motifs geometric patterns geometric shape headbands (headgear) headgear (headwear) heads (representations) human figures incising iron oxide iron oxide red (pigment) lines (geometric concept) lozenges modeling (forming) oval (shape) paint (coating) rectangles (parallelograms) red (color) repetition (artistic concept) ritual vessels scarifications (visual works) slip (clay) slip glaze splatter (spatter / speckled / printing techniques) stripes tattoos teeth (animal components) triangles (polygons) vessels (containers) zigzags (geometric patterns) more tags keyboard_arrow_down arrow_upward