Ceremonial Grinding Table (Metate)

1–500 CE

Nicoya
Nicoya, Guanacaste province, Costa Rica

Status: On View, Gallery 136
Department: Arts of the Americas

Culture: Nicoya
Title: Ceremonial Grinding Table (Metate)
Place: Nicoya (Object made in:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1 CE–500 CE
Medium: Volcanic stone
Dimensions: 30.5 × 52.1 × 45.7 cm (12 × 20 1/2 × 18 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Everett McNear in memory of Everett McNear
Reference Number: 1986.1082
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Everett McNear, High Culture in the Americas before 1500, exh. cat. (Arts Club Chicago, 1982), 37.
Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 249, cat. 191 (ill.).

Arts Club of Chicago, High Culture in the Americas before 1500, Nov. 15–Dec. 31, 1982, cat. 81 (ill.).

Enrique Vargas, San José, Costa Rica, by the 1970s [according to correspondence from A. McNear, Oct. 16, 1986, copy in curatorial object file]; sold to Everett (1904–1984) and Ann (died 1994) McNear, Chicago, 1970s [McNear 1982, 37]; by descent to Ann McNear, Chicago, 1984 [incoming receipt, RX16234, Oct. 15, 1986, copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1986.

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