Three pieces of Costa Rican history have been returned to the country almost six years after an international traveler brought them to the United States, according to US Customs and Border Protection.
Customs officers seized the ancient artifacts in December 2017 from a central Florida resident who arrived with them at the Orlando International Airport without proper documentation, according to a news release. After a secondary inspection, CBP’s agricultural specialists suspected the traveler, who flew in from San Jose, Costa Rica, was carrying protected artifacts without proof of being legally allowed to remove them from the country, authorities said.
Specialists from the National Museum of Costa Rica described one of the artifacts as a tripod pot that is missing its three supports and “decorated in some areas with red clay, combined with the natural color of the paste and decorations modeled in zoomorphic shapes.” Experts described the second object as a hollow support called a raffle that has a “zoomorphic motif,” or mammal head. “The third is a fragment of decoration that was supported by a vase with high supports,” the specialists said.
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