Object Number | 40-13-15 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Cocle |
Provenience | Panama | Sitio Conte |
Site Name | Sitio Conte |
Culture Area | Central American |
Locus | Tr. 2, B 11 |
Section | American |
Materials | Gold |
Description | Each with six small bosses around a central larger boss; each with four pierced holes for attachment. Symmetrical. Not anthropoid. Eyes are of two animals in profile. At top central vertical shaft bifurcates and becomes on either side tail and body of an animal. Both tail and body of same thickness. Each animal has four clawed pair of feet. Large head with great beak with curved end like eagle. Great circular eye. Crests on heads. At base central vertical shaft bifurcates and becomes tail and body of animal on either side. Front and rear four-clawed. Large head with great circular eye and large open mouth with triangular teeth and long caracol tongue. Nose turns up in curve. Ring of spiked ornaments around periphery. Four suspension holes. |
Length | 5.7 cm |
Width | 5.7 cm |
Credit Line | Panama, Cocle Expedition; J. Alden Mason, 1940 |
Other Number | UM4 - Field No SF | G-5 - Other Number |
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