Central America, Greater Nicoya, Costa Rica. Belen Incised, Palmares Variety. Period V-Period VI, 800-1350 AD. Ceramic. 1991.4.311. Ex. coll. William C. and Carol W. Thibadeau. Photo by Bruce M. White, 2008.
Vessel above featuring the side with the fully modeled jaguar. Photo by Bruce M. White, 2008.
Rebecca R. Stone, The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011), 125-141.
Rebecca R. Stone, Seeing With New Eyes: Highlights of the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Collection of Art of the Ancient Americas (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2002), 94-95.