Huetar Male Reliefs
Volcanic Stone Trophy Head
Diquís Stone Owl with Inverted Head
Greater Nicoya Mother and Child Figurine
Nicoya Jaguar Tripod Vessels
Greater Nicoya Seated Male Statue
Greater Nicoya Seated Male Statue
Guanacaste–Nicoya Tripod Vessel with Crocodile Legs
Guanacaste–Nicoya Crocodile Vessel Leg
Nicoya Ceremonial Metate with Female Figure Supports
Nicoya Ceremonial Metate with Female Effigy Supports
Diquís Stone Barrels and Ceremonial Seat
Jadeite Bead Necklace from Greater Nicoya
Ceremonial Metate with Geometric Carvings
Nicoya Tripod Bowls with Fertility Legs
Pre-Columbian Chorotega Jaw with Filed Teeth
Ceramic Tripod Bowl with Lizards
Tripod Bowl with Frog Legs
Huetar Warrior with Geometric Pectoral
Nicoya Metate with Dual-Figure Support
Chorotega Phallic Flute
Gran Nicoya Tripod Vessel with Rabbit
Guanacaste-Nicoya Jade God-Axe Pendant
Nicoya Vessel with Raccoon Handle
Greater Nicoya Owl Whistle
Diquís Squatting Figure
Greater Nicoya Jade Figurine
Greater Nicoya Tripod Vessel with Peccary Head
Nicoya Phallic Vessel
Greater Nicoya Vessel with Mythical Creature
Greater Nicoya Ritual Vessel with Zoomorphic Spout
Greater Nicoya Seated Male Vessel
Nicoya Jaguar-Dragon Effigy Vessel
Guanacaste-Nicoya Necklace with Shell and Jade Beads
Greater Nicoya Feline Effigy Vessel
Huetar Warrior with Trophy Head
Nicoya Female Figures
Phallic Flutes from Greater Nicoya
Greater Nicoya Jade Monkey Pendants
Greater Nicoya Turtle Effigy Bowl
Nicoya Stone Seat
Guanacaste–Nicoya Tripod Bowl with Monkeys
Greater Nicoya Phallic Ceremonial Vessels
Maya Bowl with Celestial Serpent
Nicoya Bowl with Swirling Cross
Veraguas Tripod Vessel with Seated Figures
Greater Nicoya Jade Necklace
Greater Nicoya Female Ceramic Vessel
Greater Nicoya Frog Motif on Ceramic Vessel
Greater Nicoya Lizard Detail from Tripod Vessel
Greater Nicoya Tripod Vessel with Dancers
Guanacaste–Nicoya Standing Male Figure
Greater Nicoya Tripod Vessel with Bound Side Jars
Chiriquí Vessel with Feline Motif
Greater Nicoya Toad-Shaped Shaman
Turtle-Bird Hybrid Figurine
Greater Nicoya Ceramic Bird Vessel
Nicoya Shamanic Transformation Column
Greater Nicoya Vessel with Mollusk-Like Creatures
Greater Nicoya Jadeite Necklace with Pendant
Greater Nicoya Seated Male Figure
Nicoya Female Figure on Feline
Shamanic Figure with Animal Traits
Greater Nicoya Vessel in the Shape of a Rabbit
Huetar Standing Nude Male
Greater Nicoya God-Axe with Shamanic Headdress
Maya Polychrome Vessel with Warrior
Nicoya Tripod Vessel with Shaman-Jaguar Hybrid
Guanacaste–Nicoya Tripod Vessel with Lizards
Diquís Gold Frog Pendant
Nicoya Ceremonial Metate with Macaw Effigy
Nicoya Female Jaguar-Shaman
Greater Nicoya Seated Figure Whistle
Guanacaste-Nicoya Tripod Vessel with Feline Effigy
Greater Nicoya Stylized God-Axe
Nicoya Jade Pendant
Greater Nicoya Jaguar Vessel
Nicoya Phallic Sculpture
Nicoya Funerary Vessel with Tattooed Face
Guanacaste-Nicoya Jade Bead Necklace
Nicoya Metate with Monkey Effigies
Diquís Anthropomorphic Whistle
Jade MuseumMuseo del Jade
The Jade Museum in San Jose holds Costa Rica’s most important collection of pre-Columbian jade, a greenstone valued less as ornament than as a living force linked to breath, fertility, and authority. God-axes, pendants, and figures—many from Greater Nicoya (500 BC–500)—show how elites and ritual specialists wore and buried jade to mark rank and mediate with spirits. Shown alongside ceramics and shell, the stone becomes a key to early societies and the worlds they imagined.
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