| Object Number |
40-13-2 |
| 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 |
Two symmetrical anthropomorphic figures. Quarter turned bodies. Profile heads. Large hands and feet with claw fingers and toes. Prominent navels. Belts with big pendant ornament or tails. Decorative, not physical. Large non-human heads, probably long-billed birds. Bills turned down at ends. Large round eyes. Long crest. Two vertical pairs of suspension holes. |
| Outside Diameter |
21.5 cm |
| Credit Line |
Panama, Cocle Expedition; J. Alden Mason, 1940 |
| Other Number |
G-2 - Field No SF | 0228 - Cast Number |
Current & Past Exhibitions
Bibliography
| Hearne Jardine, Pamela H., and Robert J. Sharer. River of Gold: Precolumbian Treasures from Sitio Conte. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 1992. See: Plate 8 |
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| Wardwell, Allen. The Gold of Ancient America. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1968. See: p. 105, fig. 87 |
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| Guide to the Collections, The University Museum. Philadelphia: The University Museum, 1965. See: p. 96 |
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| Madeira, Percy C. Men in Search of Man: The First Seventy-Five Years of the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1964. See: p. 86 |
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| Mason, John A. "The Lesser Archaeological Cultures of Mexico and Central America: American Collections: The Ancient Civilizations of Middle America." The University Museum Bulletin 10, no. 1-2. (1943): 49-56. See: p. 55, fig. 38 |
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