Vessel: Jaguar(?), c. 1000-1550. Artists of the Pataky style excelled in animal portrayals that typically combine a modeled head with a flat, boldly patterned vessel chamber, punned as the animal's body. The animals meanings are unstudied, though it seems important that many strike human poses-creatures that combine human and animal traits often have mythic import.

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Keywords: ., 1000-1550, art, ceramic, cleveland, costa, heritage, museum, nicoya, pataky, polychrome, region, rica, slip, southern, style, unknown