Animal-Headed Figure Pendant: in sala — Cleveland Museum of Art

Among the pendants shown here are a crustacean (1943.290), an animal-headed figure (1948.18), and two pendants featuring birds (1951.442 and 1946.223). The latter were dubbed aguilas (eagles) by Christopher Columbus, who saw natives wearing them as necklace ornaments. Modern researchers are not as sure of the species shown, but some believe that they are birds of prey because talons and beaks are prominent and often clutch something, in one example here a small, disembodied head that holds a clapper. In both examples, two tufts in the form of crocodiles in profile flank the birds’ heads.

Animal-Headed Figure Pendant

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Sulla scultura

Scheda

Nella stessa sala · 233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region, Cleveland Museum of Art

In catalogo

Fonti

Front Face of a Stela (Free-standing Stone with Relief), 692

Ballgame Palma, c. 900–1100

"Horned" Male, 100 BCE–300 CE

Head Fragment, c. 900–300 BCE

Mural Fragment with Elite Male and Maguey Cactus Leaves, 500–550

Panel with Royal Woman, c. 795

Figural Pendant, 1–800 CE

Figure of a Warrior, after 1325 (thermoluminescence date of casting core, 1345–1575)