Figurine

40-13-123

From: Panama | Sitio Conte

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 40-13-123
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Cocle
Provenience Panama | Sitio Conte
Site Name Sitio Conte
Culture Area Central American
Locus Tr. 2, B 11 Middle level, Skeleton L
Section American
Materials Gold | Tooth
Iconography Animal
Description

Small carved figurine of whale-tooth ivory with gold onlay in shape of anthropomorphic animal with crest on head and three paws. Prominent teeth. Gold onlay on paws (showing fingers or claws) and crest. Probably once on eyes and nose but now missing. Figure much eroded, but gold apparently quite pure and uncorroded. (See 40-13-122)

Height 5.4 cm
Credit Line Panama, Cocle Expedition; J. Alden Mason, 1940
Other Number G252 - Field No SF

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