Jar with modeled animal head and incised legs and tail CULTURE: Greater Nicoya DATE: 1000–1550 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) animals (Animalia kingdom) appliqué (technique) bands (decorative) burnishing (polishing) ceramic (material) chevrons (motifs) chocolate cups (drinking vessels) chocolate pots (vessels for serving drinks) circles (plane figures) circular (shape) claws (animal components) clay coiling (pottery technique) containers (hierarchy name) creatures cross-hatching dots (geometric motif) earthenware figures (representations) frogs (animals) geometric motifs geometric patterns geometric shape glazing (coating) heads (representations) incising jars (vessels) legs (animal or human components) lines (geometric concept) lizards (animals/ sauria suborder) modeling (forming) mythical or legendary beings paint (coating) relief (sculpture techniques) ritual vessels scale pattern slab method (pottery technique) slip (clay) slip glaze storage containers storage jars supernatural (concepts) tails (animal components) vessels (containers) zigzags (geometric patterns) more tags keyboard_arrow_down arrow_upward