Diquís stone figure, Period VI, ca. A.D. 1000-1500

of classic peg-style with robust legs, the arms and torso highlighted by raised medallions, perhaps indicting feline spots, the lunate eyes and mouth finely incised for further delineation, and wearing a banded cap with knot at the back; in gray brown sandstone.

Edinburgh, Scotland, City Art Centre, August 3-31, 1986

Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Museum of Art, November 22, 1985- January 31, 1986

Lois Katz, ed., Art of Costa Rica, Pre-Columbian Painted and Sculpted Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Washington, D.C., 1985, no. 200

Fine, intact. areas slightly worn as shown.
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The tenon figures are known from the Diquís region, but peg figures were found in sacred enclosures in the Coclé area, suggesting they represented deities or ancestor figures (see Katz 1985:288). Also see von Winning (1968: fig. 517).