GENERAL DESCRIPTION
NOTES
Greater Nicoya, 1–500 C.E., updated by KJones in TMS on 01/14/16 and 04/19/17.
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Cultures
Greater Nicoya (Costa Rican styles): DMA
Costa Rican styles: AAT: 300386018
Pre-Columbian (American): AAT: 300016619
Geography
Costa Rica (nation): TGN: 7005364
Nicoya (inhabited place / Guanacaste): TGN: 1016252
Guanacaste (province): TGN: 1001274
Process/materials
variegated chloromelanite (jadeite / mineral): DMA
jadeite (mineral): AAT: 300011121
incising: AAT: 300053847
carving: AAT: 300053149
drillwork (sculpture technique): AAT: 300186211
polishing (finishing): AAT: 300053867
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
celts (cutting tools): AAT: 300251881
ritual objects: AAT: 300312158
figures: AAT: 300189808
standing: AAT: 300239500
supernatural (concepts): AAT: 300055947
deities: AAT: 300343850
anthropomorphic: AAT: 300010335
animals (Animalia kingdom): AAT: 300249395
jaguar (animals): AAT: 300310389
transformations (concepts / processes): DMA
cleft head (motif): DMA
underworld (doctrinal concept): AAT: 300343823
tree of life (general motif / axis mundi / cosmic axis / world axis / world tree): AAT: 300312112
geometric patterns: AAT: 300165213
geometric motifs: AAT: 300009764
lines (geometric concept): AAT: 300056279
circles (plane figures): AAT: 300055627
triangles (polygons): AAT: 300009806
green (color): AAT: 300128438
black (color): AAT: 300130920
shiny: AAT: 300065244
portable: AAT: 300256252
miniature (size): AAT: 300121995
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
n.d.: Enrique Vargas Alfaro, San Jose, Costa Rica [1]
From 1971: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, General Acquisitions Fund [1], [2], [3]
[1] The main source for this provenance was existing information in TMS (in Dallas Museum of Art Digital Collections Records Object Files). Exceptions and other supporting documents are noted.
[2] The main source for this provenance is Acquisition Record (dated June 08, 1971, copy in Dallas Museum of Art Collections Records Object File). Exceptions and other supporting documents are noted.
[3] The name of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 1933, was changed to the Dallas Museum of Art in 1983.
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Notes
Greater Nicoya, 1–500 C.E., updated by KJones in TMS on 01/14/16 and 04/19/17.
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Cultures
Greater Nicoya (Costa Rican styles): DMA
Costa Rican styles: AAT: 300386018
Pre-Columbian (American): AAT: 300016619
Geography
Costa Rica (nation): TGN: 7005364
Nicoya (inhabited place / Guanacaste): TGN: 1016252
Guanacaste (province): TGN: 1001274
Process/materials
variegated chloromelanite (jadeite / mineral): DMA
jadeite (mineral): AAT: 300011121
incising: AAT: 300053847
carving: AAT: 300053149
drillwork (sculpture technique): AAT: 300186211
polishing (finishing): AAT: 300053867
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
celts (cutting tools): AAT: 300251881
ritual objects: AAT: 300312158
figures: AAT: 300189808
standing: AAT: 300239500
supernatural (concepts): AAT: 300055947
deities: AAT: 300343850
anthropomorphic: AAT: 300010335
animals (Animalia kingdom): AAT: 300249395
jaguar (animals): AAT: 300310389
transformations (concepts / processes): DMA
cleft head (motif): DMA
underworld (doctrinal concept): AAT: 300343823
tree of life (general motif / axis mundi / cosmic axis / world axis / world tree): AAT: 300312112
geometric patterns: AAT: 300165213
geometric motifs: AAT: 300009764
lines (geometric concept): AAT: 300056279
circles (plane figures): AAT: 300055627
triangles (polygons): AAT: 300009806
green (color): AAT: 300128438
black (color): AAT: 300130920
shiny: AAT: 300065244
portable: AAT: 300256252
miniature (size): AAT: 300121995
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
n.d.: Enrique Vargas Alfaro, San Jose, Costa Rica [1]
From 1971: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, General Acquisitions Fund [1], [2], [3]
[1] The main source for this provenance was existing information in TMS (in Dallas Museum of Art Digital Collections Records Object Files). Exceptions and other supporting documents are noted.
[2] The main source for this provenance is Acquisition Record (dated June 08, 1971, copy in Dallas Museum of Art Collections Records Object File). Exceptions and other supporting documents are noted.
[3] The name of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 1933, was changed to the Dallas Museum of Art in 1983.
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