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Parrot Effigy Metate, between 500 and 1000

  • Costa Rican, Precolumbian

Volcanic rock

  • Overall: 10 1/2 × 10 1/2 × 24 inches (26.7 × 26.7 × 61 cm)

Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Irving F. Burton

1986.56.1

On View

  • Native American

Department

Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas

1986-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Abel-Vidor, S., et al. Between Continents/Between Seas: Precolumbian Art of Costa Rica. New York, 1981, pp. 190-191, no. 75, col. pl. 49.

Costa Rican, Precolumbian, Parrot Effigy Metate, between 500 and 1000, volcanic rock. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Irving F. Burton, 1986.56.1.