Bell
40-14-853
From: Panama | Sitio Conte
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 40-14-853 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Panama | Sitio Conte |
| Site Name | Sitio Conte |
| Culture Area | Central American |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Gold (uncertain) |
| Description | Tumbaga alloy [?]. Pear-shaped in form of bat. Large body with large slip and spherical metal rattling pellet. Anthropomorphic facial features in wire applique relief [?]. Asymmetrical; right arm raised to mouth; left arm holds a crooked stick to side. Vestigial feet. Applied suspension hole at back. [Found in box with 40-14-731. Orig. #41, B-25, "Copper figurine from right shoulder of Skeleton A." Possibly originally assigned another number] |
| Height | 2.8 cm |
| Length | 3 cm |
| Width | 2 cm |
| Credit Line | Panama, Cocle Expedition; J. Alden Mason, 1940 |
| Other Number | 9 - Other Number |
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