Stele

Artist:Central Caribbean

Medium: Volcanic stone

Geograhical Locations:

• Las Mercedes, Costa Rica

Dates:700-1000

Dimensions: 78 9/16 x 23 1/4 x 11 in. (199.5 x 59 x 27.9 cm)

Collections:

• Arts of the Americas

Museum Location: Arts of the Americas Galleries, 5th Floor

Exhibitions:

• Life, Death, and Transformation in the Americas
• Climate in Crisis: Environmental Change in the Indigenous Americas

Accession Number: 34.5098

Image: 34.5098_front_PS4.jpg,

Catalogue Description:
Large stone stele decorated with three human figures wearing jaguar masks. The figures are carved in the round and joined by the arms of the central figure. The back of the piece is decorated with eighteen crouching jaguars in high relief that are carved along the sides of the stele. Condition: good.

Brooklyn Museum