Plaque
40-13-3
Location: On Display in the Mexico and Central America Gallery
From: Panama | Sitio Conte
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 40-13-3 |
| Current Location | Mexico and Central America Gallery - On Display |
| Culture | Cocle |
| Provenience | Panama | Sitio Conte |
| Site Name | Sitio Conte |
| Culture Area | Central American |
| Locus | Tr. 2, B 11 |
| Date Made | 700–900 CE |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Gold |
| Description | Perfectly human figure, front view. Great mouth, rectangular teeth, oval eyes, crescentic nostril lobes. Queer ears with vertical ornaments. Crest headdress. fingers and toes with claws. Holds upright stick (?) with rectangular depressions. Ornaments (?) below knee. Across waist joined tails of two leg-less animals, maybe centipedes. Edges of bodies serrated. Possibly have fins, maybe a fish, shark? Wide mouth, triangular teeth, round eyes. Divided nose. |
| Outside Diameter | 20.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Panama, Cocle Expedition; J. Alden Mason, 1940 |
| Other Number | G-3 | B11 - Field No SF | 0229 - Cast Number |
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