Object Number | 40-13-4 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Cocle |
Provenience | Panama | Sitio Conte |
Site Name | Sitio Conte |
Culture Area | Central American |
Locus | Tr. 2, B 11 |
Date Made | 750-1000 CE |
Section | American |
Materials | Gold |
Description | Symmetrical. Anthropomorphic figure, front view, arms and legs outstretched. Large roughly square face. Very large mouth with many triangular teeth. Very large oval eyes, two raised rings. Large hooked nostrils. Large, non-human ears with round ear ornaments. Curving horns (?) to either side and central upright plume or ornament. Short neck. Long arms ending in extra broad curve without any evidence of hands or paws--no digits at all. Single hook on shoulders, and line of hooks paralleling arms, waist, legs. Legs also non-human. No feet. Legs turn into thin body of animal, probably commencing with tail, with hooked spikes on upper part. Hind legs with flat feet, four toes. Arms outstretched to both sides; four curving claws. Large open mouth with triangular teeth, depressed nostril vertical projection on snout. Large circular eye. Large horns (?) or feathers or ornament on head, projecting backwards, with several large hooks, Small foreward projection on fore head. Long thin curving tongue, the scroll end of which coalesces with front paw or hand. Two horizontal pairs of suspension holes. |
Height | 22.5 cm |
Length | 21.5 cm |
Credit Line | Panama, Cocle Expedition; J. Alden Mason, 1940 |
Other Number | G-4 - Field No SF | CS-104 - Other Number |
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