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40-13-15

From: Panama | Sitio Conte

Curatorial Section: American

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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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