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Stone tool, rounded crescent shape with wide carved groove (finger width) on inner side of curve - possibly used for smoothing and shaping.
Stone Shaping Tool
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Stone Shaping Tool

Maker Costa Rican Artist
Dateundated
Place of originCosta Rica, North and Central America
Mediumstone
Dimensions2 7/8 x 1 3/16 x 1 in. (7.3 x 3 x 2.5 cm)
ClassificationsFurnishings and Equipment
Object numberC-86-76
Collections
Visual DescriptionStone tool, rounded crescent shape with wide carved groove (finger width) on inner side of curve - possibly used for smoothing and shaping.
Stone tool of a slender rounded crescent shape, possibly used to smooth and shape objects (perhaps ceramics).
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Small Grinding Stone (?)
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Fragment
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Human-head mace head
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Incised Stone
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Grinding Stone
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Grinding tool.
Stirrup-shaped mano
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Stone Pestle
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Large bowl with relatively flat bottom, curving at edge up into wall with slight outward lean and slight flare at rim. Supported by tripod legs shaped to resemble animal heads, attachment area to bottom is neck, swelling to cranial area, tapering to pointy snout, indented mouth groove. Red lines on interior of rim, black line on exterior rim and bottom of wall, red triangle over each leg bordered by wide vertical bands, panels of abstract design (possibly a face) red band around edge of bott…
Tripod Bowl
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Female Figure
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Pestle is a small conical shaped stone with slightly rounded butt. Mortar is a small bowl with flat base, wall rises at a steady outward slope with small raised ridge above base, thick walls with shallow cylindrical grinding area.
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