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Dr. Jorge Lines followed in the footsteps of Juan Ferraz. A historian and anthropologist, Lines published numerous scholarly articles and books over a long and distinguished career. As a professor at Costa Rica’s National University, he was dedicated to promoting an understanding of the ancestral and contemporary indigenous cultures of Costa Rica. Similar to Ferraz, he did so through the transfer of Costa Rican objects to foreign museums. Between 1932 and 1934, Dr. Lines exchanged eighty-two archaeological and ethnographic objects with the Museum of the American Indian-Heye Foundation (Figure 118). But Dr. Lines was also actively involved in promoting the development of a professionalized archaeology in Costa Rica. In 1962, he visited the campus of Kansas University to discuss a groundbreaking student-exchange program between the two universities. This program has awarded Ph.D.s to several Costa Rican scholars. The private collections of noteworthy Central American politicians have also, often inadvertently, found their way into U.S. museums. The political instability of the region and continual overthrow of short-lived governments meant that former presidents often lived in exile, sometimes in the United States. Marco Aurelio Soto, president of Honduras from 1876 to 1883, lived his final years as a political exile in California and New York. After Fig. 119 Fig. 117 Fig. 118 his death in 1908, his private collection of Honduran antiquities was sold to the Heye Foundation (Figure 119). Ada Monteleagre, the daughter of former Costa Rican president José María Montealegre Fernández, grew up in Berkeley, California, where the family owned a winery. In 1920 she sold the Heye Foundation fifty-one objects presumably once owned by her father. Still smaller groups of antiquities have arrived at U.S. museums through the efforts of Central American citizens who donated family collections. For example, twenty-one objects recovered from the Finca Miraflores owned by Guillermo Batres and his family in Guatemala were donated to the Heye Foundation in 1924. It is quite possible that the Batres family believed their collections would be better cared for outside of Guatemala, where few museum institutions existed at the time. Fig. 117. Chiriquí pendant in the form of a man, AD 900–1500. North of Cartago, Cartago Province, Costa Rica. Gold. Purchased by George Heye from Juan F. Ferraz, 1902. Fig. 118. Greater Nicoya jaguar-effigy whistle, 300 BC–AD 500. Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica. Pottery. MAI purchase from Dr. Jorge A. Lines, 1962. Fig. 119. Ulúa River female figure, AD 250– 900. Gracias, Lempira Department, Honduras. Pottery. Formerly in the collection of Marco Aurelio Soto; MAI purchase from an unknown source, 1917. 79 promoting heritage
List of Figures Measurements are given in centimeters, height × width × depth. Figure 1. Map of Central America showing sites and regions mentioned. Map by Gene Thorp Figure 2. Ulúa River tripod vessel with design of masked figures, AD 850–950 Río Ulúa valley, Cortés Department, Honduras Pottery, clay slip, paint MAI purchase from N. Hasbun, 1969. 17 × 18 × 18 cm (24/3267). Photo by Ernest Amoroso Figure 3. Ulúa River whistle representing a man and woman, AD 750–850 Campo Dos (United Fruit Company Farm 2), Cortés Department, Honduras Pottery Collected or excavated by Gregory Mason, acquired by MAI, 1932. 11 × 9 × 11 cm (18/3201). Photo by Ernest Amoroso Figure 4. Ulúa River figure from an incensario lid representing a man holding an axe, AD 650–850 Naranjo Chino, Yoro Department, Honduras Pottery Collected or excavated by Gregory Mason, acquired by MAI, 1932. 11 × 23 × 20 cm (18/3214). Photo by Pamela Dewey Figure 5. Ulúa River Vessel depicting dancers, AD 750–850 Yuscarán, El Paraíso Department, Honduras Pottery, clay slip, paint Formerly in the collection of Marco Aurelio Soto; MAI purchase from an unknown source, 1917. 23 × 19 cm (6/1259). Photo by Ernest Amoroso Figure 6. Ulúa River Vessel with handles in the form of monkey’s heads, AD 650–750 Río Ulúa valley, Honduras Marble Formerly in the collection of Marco Aurelio Soto; MAI purchase from an unknown source, 1917. 15 × 15.5 × 20 cm (6/1262). Photo by Ernest Amoroso Figure 7. Selin Tradition vessel, AD 800–1000 Isla de Guanaja (Bonacca), Islas de la Bahía Department, Honduras Pottery Collected or excavated by Frederick A. Mitchell- Hedges, 1930–1931. 17 × 13 × 18 cm (18/694). Photo by Ernest Amoroso Figure 8. Central Caribbean/Costa Rican Atlantic Watershed incense burner with crocodile-effigy handle, AD 800–1500 Eastern highlands, Costa Rica Pottery, clay slip Purchased for George Heye by Theodoor de Booy in Kingston, Jamaica, 1913. 26 × 15 × 6 cm (3/3080). Photo by Ernest Amoroso Figure 9. Ulúa River jar with design of men seated on benches, AD 850–950 Copán, Copán Department, Honduras Pottery, clay slip, paint MAI purchase from an unknown source, 1971. 20 × 19 × 18 (24/4272). Photo by NMAI Move Team Figure 10. Greater Coclé animal figure, AD 300–1000 Río de Jesús, Veraguas Province, Panama Pottery, paint Excavated by Neville A. Harte and Eva M. Harte; gift of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Sackler, 1967. 26 × 22 × 14.5 cm (24/501). Photo by NMAI Move Team 80 REVEALING ANCESTRAL CENTRAL AMERICA
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6 Foreword Kevin Gover and Eduardo
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