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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.
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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.