Pendant
40-13-27
From: Panama | Sitio Conte
Curatorial Section: American
Object Number | 40-13-27 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Cocle |
Provenience | Panama | Sitio Conte |
Site Name | Sitio Conte |
Culture Area | Central American |
Locus | Tr. 2, B 11 |
Date Made | 750-1000 CE |
Section | American |
Materials | Gold | Emerald |
Iconography | Jaguar |
Description | Shown upside down in grave photo above three plaques and beside object with gold inlay. Jaguar. Large pillow shaped emerald set in back surrounded by four part gold edging. Outer ones continuous, inner ones bead-like. Pair of decorative, sinuous, "wings" at back of emerald with loose thin moveable gold leaf attached. Four legs and feet projecting foreward, each with five similar curving claws, plus one beneath upcurving. Head with rude open mouth full of teeth above and below. Two flat tongues from mouth curving back and ending in scroll at neck. Very bulging eyes at top, almost spherical. Blunt nose with nostrils to sides consisting of four vertical fine-wire sections. Pair of short pointed horns (ears?) on top of head. Long raised tail of rectangular section ending in pair of fixed spiked "wheels." Between them a third wire with loose thin leaf ornament. Small attached horizontal tube for suspension on chest between front legs. |
Height | 3 cm |
Length | 11 cm |
Width | 4.5 cm |
Credit Line | Panama, Cocle Expedition; J. Alden Mason, 1940 |
Other Number | G12 - Field No SF | 43-27 - Other Number | CS-101 - Other Number |
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