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Ceremonial Grinding Table (Metate)
Nicoya · 1–500 CE
Provenance
Ownership history
- 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.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Arts Club of Chicago, <em>High Culture in the Americas before 1500</em>, Nov. 15–Dec. 31, 1982, cat. 81 (ill.).
Literature
Published references
- Everett McNear, <em>High Culture in the Americas before 1500</em>, exh. cat. (Arts Club Chicago, 1982), 37.
- Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, <em>Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 249, cat. 191 (ill.).
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