Metate in shape of feline | Yale University Art Gallery

A.D. 800–1500

Medium: Volcanic stone
Dimensions: 9 1/2 × 13 3/8 × 32 in. (24.13 × 33.97 × 81.28 cm)
Credit Line: Bequest of Erika and Thomas Leland Hughes, B.A. 1945, LL.B. 1949
Accession Number: 2014.121.84
Geography: Costa Rica
Culture: Costa Rica, Atlantic Watershed
Classification: Tools and Equipment
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Provenance

From Sotheby Parke-Bernet NYC sale #4088, March 3, 1978.
From the collection of Erika Hughes, Hughes Bequest.

Bibliography

George A. Kubler, ed., Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1986), 368, fig. 253

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Additional information

Object/Work type

metates, utilitarian objects

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