Central America, Greater Nicoya, Costa Rica. Belen Incised, Belen Variety. Period V-Period VI, 700-1350 AD. Ceramic. 1991.4.313. Ex coll. William C. and Carol W. Thibadeau. Photo by Bruce M. White, 2008.
Side of vessel featuring one jaguar's heliacal vine tail and head of other 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.