Pottery of Costa Rica and Nicaragua
A 1926 museum publication by archaeologist S. K. Lothrop, issued in New York by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, documenting ancient pottery from Costa Rica and Nicaragua for scholars and collectors. The plates show vessels photographed or drawn from several angles, with some details shown as line drawings of incised and painted decoration. A designer could take from them the stylised animal heads, looped rope-like relief bands, and geometric key-fret and stepped patterns that recur across the forms.
