File:Colombia, Tairona style, 10th-16th century - Figure Pendant - 1998.3 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif

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Figure Pendant   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Figure Pendant
Object type Metalwork
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.
Date between 900 and 1550
Medium Cast gold
Dimensions Overall: 6.2 x 6.1 x 2.5 cm (2 7/16 x 2 3/8 x 1 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q657415
Current location
Art of the Americas
Accession number
1998.3
Place of creation Colombia, Tairona style, 10th-16th century
Credit line John L. Severance Fund
Source/Photographer https://clevelandart.org/art/1998.3

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