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40-13-195

From: Panama | Sitio Conte

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 40-13-195
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Cocle
Provenience Panama | Sitio Conte
Site Name Sitio Conte
Culture Area Central American
Locus Tr. 2, B 25
Section American
Materials Gold
Description

Anthropomorphic? Symmetrical. Border (unusual). Large triangular or semicircular face, quasi-human. Large oval mouth and triangular teeth. Nose and nostrils. Queer crescentic eyes, or eyebrows (?); no real eyes. Crescentic ears. No body. Four short limbs with big clawed hands and feet; five claws, one opposed. Inferior work. Two pair of vertical suspension holes.

Length 14 cm
Width 16.5 cm
Credit Line Panama, Cocle Expedition; J. Alden Mason, 1940
Other Number 36 - Field No SF

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