This exhibition was funded in part by the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture and the County of San Diego Community Enhancement Program.
Other lenders to the exhibition included Dr. A. D. Grinnell, Susan Lerer and Gay and Bob Sinclair.
This exhibition presented a selection of Pre-Columbian polychromed pottery and _molas_ which represented more than 1,000 years of the art of people of Panama. The collection of Pre-Columbian polychromes represented the oldest continuous ceramic tradition in the New World, a tradition dating from 800 B.C. The objects exhibited served as funerary vessels for elite members of society and date from the First Century A.D. to the Spanish Conquest.