Object Number | 40-13-26 |
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 | Human figure, front view, outspread, symmetrical. Claw finger and toe nails. Spreading headdress. Two symmetrical demonical animals below with tails attached to human waist. Probably long tailed crocodiles. Three short legs each with five-clawed feet, four claws and one opposed. Fourth foot not visible. Long curving spiney tail. Long curving tongue, trident teeth. Nose not crocodilian. Three-element something on nose. Antler-like element on head, ears (?). Beard (?) on chin. Four pair suspension holes. |
Length | 26 cm |
Width | 18 cm |
Credit Line | Panama, Cocle Expedition; J. Alden Mason, 1940 |
Other Number | G1 - Field No SF |
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