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Tripod Bowl with Frog Legs
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Tripod Bowl with Frog Legs

This ceramic vessel (c. 500–1350 AD) from the Guanacaste–Nicoya culture features three legs shaped like crouching frogs. In Mesoamerican belief, frogs symbolized fertility, rain, and transformation, acting as intermediaries between earth and water. Such bowls likely held ritual offerings invoking renewal and agricultural abundance.
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