Object Number | 40-13-6 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Cocle |
Provenience | Panama | Sitio Conte |
Site Name | Sitio Conte |
Culture Area | Central American |
Locus | Tr. 2 , B 11, 3rd level, square 15 |
Date Made | 750-1000 CE |
Section | American |
Materials | Gold |
Description | Slightly bent, Two pairs suspension holes, both arranged vertically, symetrical. Front view anthropomorphic figure, human head and face. Arms an legs outstretched, legs flared. Large human head, flat across top. Large oval eyes with indented horizontal pupil. Nose with large nostrils. Very large oval mouth with trisangular teeth. Large non-human ears with grreat curving ornament. Large branching two headdress-like horns with angular or curving spikes and crescent ends. Large intaglio triangle in breast. Human arms ending in claw fingers and smaller thumb. Legs quasi-human but curving and without knee angle, and of same width throughout. Upside down dragon profile heads in place of human feet, each with two five clawed front paws. Large profile mouth, open and full of triangular teeth. Large round eyes with central intaglio pupils. Curved beak and crest to rear of head. From human knee an element shoots off which may be a creature's leg or tail, ending in flaring enlargement, not in claw. Apparently non-biomorphical spiked elements, spikes angular or curving, fill interstices around upper human leg and around creature's tail. |
Height | 21.8 cm |
Width | 22.4 cm |
Credit Line | Panama, Cocle Expedition; J. Alden Mason, 1940 |
Other Number | G241 - Field No SF | CS-105 - Other Number |
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