Metate with Bird Head

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Metate with Bird Head

Costa Rica, Guanacaste-Nicoya, 300–700 CE
Stone
Basalt
11 × 21 × 8 in. (27.94 × 53.34 × 20.32 cm)
Gift of the Art Museum Council in honor of the museum's twenty-fifth anniversary (M.90.168.43)
Not currently on public view