File:Clevelandart 1998.3.jpg
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Figure Pendant
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Figure Pendant |
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metal artwork  |
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| Description |
Tairona-style pendants are among the most spectacular of all ancient American gold ornaments, in part because of the detail achieved with lost-wax casting. The traits of the figure pendant include a lower lip ornament and a headdress in which two bats hang upside down. Although called caciques (chieftains)-that is, ruler portraits-the meaning of such figures is not well understood. Bird imagery was important in the isthmian region in ancient times and remains so today. For instance, among the modern Bribri of Costa Rica, the principal creator deity (Sibo) takes the form of a buzzard or kite who wears a collar. Collars are standard features of ancient bird pendants, like the one shown here. |
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| Date | 900 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Cast gold | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Overall: 6.2 x 6.1 x 2.5 cm (2 7/16 x 2 3/8 x 1 in.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Art of the Americas |
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1998.3 |
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| Place of creation | Colombia, Tairona style, 10th-16th century | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | John L. Severance Fund | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source/Photographer | https://clevelandart.org/art/1998.3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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The three-dimensional work of art depicted in this image is in the public domain in the United States and in those countries with copyright terms of life of the creator plus 70 years or less. The creation of photographic reproduction of this object, however, generates a new copyright and an additional statement should be provided to indicate the copyright status of the image.
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This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project with the Cleveland Museum of Art. See the Open Access at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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