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Animal-Headed Figure Pendant, c. 1000–1550

Animal-Headed Figure Pendant

c. 1000–1550 · Metalwork

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Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, Verenigde Staten

Zaal233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region

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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.

Cleveland Museum of Art

Gegevens

Inventarisnummer
1948.18

In de catalogus

BeeldhouwkunstMetaalCosta Rica, Diquís region, 11th-16th century

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In dezelfde zaal · 233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region, Cleveland Museum of Art

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