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40-13-8

From: Panama | Sitio Conte

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 40-13-8
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Cocle
Provenience Panama | Sitio Conte
Site Name Sitio Conte
Culture Area Central American
Locus Tr. 2, B 11, near feet of skeletons C-D
Section American
Materials Gold
Description

Small, thin, bent. Two pair vertical suspension holes near top. Central anthropomorphic figure. Large quasi-rectangular face. Large oblong mouth full of triangular teeth. Large humanistic nose. Large round eyes. Pair of crests or horns. Vertical curving ears or ear ornaments. Uplifted arms ending in pad with one claw. Some sort of protrusion at inner angle of elbow. Short trunk and legs. Legs have two hooks on each upper part, and each connects with back of small animal in profile. Body and feet monkey-like, three and four curved toes. One arm upraised with three curved fingers (?) and thumb. Other arm reversed and unnatural with three long fingers. Head in profile with large mouth with few triangular teeth. Round eye. Nose with projections up and down. Head with fore and aft projections. Great crest or horn projecting up from head with four hooks, like great claw with three fingers and one thumb.

Length 10 cm
Width 10.6 cm
Credit Line Panama, Cocle Expedition; J. Alden Mason, 1940
Other Number G-152 - Field No SF

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