9394. Important Costa Rican Stone Sculpture of a Prisoner

Atlantic Watershed region, Late Period V, Ca. 700 to 1000 A.D.

Carved depicted as a rather large monolithic form, a somber nude standing male with his hands and feet bound, his arms bent out at the elbows.

Rope is bound around his wrists and ankles. He further demonstrates his noble rank with his short hair arranged in tight curls upon his head. the sides of the legs decorated with a chevron patterns, and bands going over the shoulder on his back; in porous volcanic stone.

32 inches (81.3 cm) Height.

(Ancient surface deposits; Head repaired.)

Doris Stone, in Pre Columbian Man in Costa Rica, states: - Sculptures represent the carrying of trophy heads, the offering of prayer or supplication, the chewing of coca - prisoners destined as slaves and as sacrifice victims (Fernandez Guardia 1908, p 50. ) (fig 164). and the familiar deities of Lower Central America.

Provenance: Ex Wallace Katz collection; 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.

Museum quality. This figure important because of the rare iconography

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