Anthropomorphic Pendant
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.This large pendant combines elements of various aquatic creatures, including a seahorselike tail and a frog-like face with bulbous eyes and wide, protruding lips. It has an anthropomorphic torso with broad shoulders and hands with five defined fingers.
Este colgante combina elementos de varios seres acuáticos, tales como una cola de hipocampo y una cara de rana con ojos bulbosos y labios anchos y salientes. Tiene un torso antropomórfico con hombros anchos y manos con cinco dedos bien definidos.
Este colgante combina elementos de varios seres acuáticos, tales como una cola de hipocampo y una cara de rana con ojos bulbosos y labios anchos y salientes. Tiene un torso antropomórfico con hombros anchos y manos con cinco dedos bien definidos.
Artwork Details
- Title: Anthropomorphic Pendant
- Date: 700–900 CE
- Geography: Panama, Sitio Conte
- Culture: Coclé
- Medium: Gold
- Dimensions: H. 3 11/16 × W. 1 1/4 × D. 9/16 in. (9.4 × 3.2 × 1.4 cm)
- Classifications: Metalwork-Ornaments, Gold
- Credit Line: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Gift of Thomas Barbour, 1929 (29-50-20/C10677)
- Curatorial Department: The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing