Tripod Jar
Unidentified maker (Costa Rica)
Pre-Columbian
Terracotta with red slip
Overall: 3 1/8 × 2 5/16 in. (8 × 5.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Lt. Robert A. Ash USNR, Class of 1952
56.19.13625
Geography
Place Made: Central Highlans Region, Costa Rica, Central America
Object Name
Pottery
Research Area
Americas
Funerary Objects
Not on view
Provenance
Collected in 1995; given to Lt. Robert A. Ash, Florida; given to present collection, 1956.
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