Large Costa Rican Stone Figure of a Prisoner, Atlantic Watershed region, Late Period V, ca. A.D. 700-1000

with a rope bound around his wrists and bands going over the shoulder on his back, the ankles bound, and with the sides of the legs decorated with a chevron pattern, the hair shorn into circles; in porous volcanic stone. 

The Manhattan Galleries, Important Masterpieces of Pre-Columbian Art, May 14, 1983, lot 106

Purportedly exhibited at Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, prior to 1983

Repaired at the neck, some new material for stabilizing. Otherwise fine.
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