Disc
37-12-22
From: Guatemala | Department of Alta Verapaz | Chimuxan | Cahabon Drainage
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 37-12-22 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Guatemala | Department of Alta Verapaz | Chimuxan | Cahabon Drainage |
| Culture Area | Central American |
| Locus | surface of small cave |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Gold |
| Description | Thin circular concave-convex sheet of gold with impressed design in very low relief on the convex side of a human face with headdress and ear plugs; band of discs near edge and punctate band at edge. Traces of association with red ochre. Fragile and slightly broken. |
| Width | 9.6 cm |
| Depth | 10 cm |
| Credit Line | Guatemalan Expedition; Robert Burkitt, 1937 |
| Other Number | 1132 - Field No SF |
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