Pendant
40-13-118
From: Panama | Sitio Conte
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 40-13-118 |
| 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 | Whale Bone |
| Iconography | Jaguar |
| Description | Carved figurine of whale-tooth ivory with gold onlay in shape of anthropomorphic animal with crocodile or jaguar face seated on long pointed base. Gold onlay crest, nose, ears, one eye, upper and lower limbs. Curvilinear design on gold on crest and limbs show claws/fingers. Figure much eroded but gold apparently quite pure and uncorroded. |
| Height | 10.8 cm |
| Credit Line | Panama, Cocle Expedition; J. Alden Mason, 1940 |
| Other Number | G74-75 - Field No SF |
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