Pendant

40-13-120

From: Panama | Sitio Conte

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 40-13-120
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Cocle
Provenience Panama | Sitio Conte
Site Name Sitio Conte
Culture Area Central American
Locus Tr. 2, B 11 Skeletons A-B
Section American
Materials Gold | Ivory
Description

Possibly ivory. Restored from fragments; large missing sections restored in coloured plaster [?]. Large; reptilian [?]. Large head and large horizontal open mouth; no teeth. Relief nostrils. 4 short legs in low relief against body. Fat tail tapering to point. 7 gold onlays: large high eyes with crescentic extensions; long high spine down vertebrae, 4 flattish oval feet with repousse claws.

Height 4.5 cm
Length 13.5 cm
Width 4.5 cm
Credit Line Panama, Cocle Expedition; J. Alden Mason, 1940
Other Number G211 - Field No SF

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