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Jewelry
Vulture Pendant
Veraguas-Gran Chiriqui artist, (active )
Veraguas-Gran Chiriqui artist
Panama
Primary
3 1/16 x 3 1/4 x 13/16 in. (7.8 x 8.3 x 2 cm)
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overall
overall
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with mount
overall
Gold-copper alloy
Gold-copper alloy
Veraguas-Gran Chiriqui; made in Panama
1000 - 1530 CE
1000
1530
Pre-Columbian art of Central & South America
Jewelry
This vulture pendant displays the bird in standard attack mode: outstretched wings, fanned tail and sharp and deadly talons at the ready. Located under the large horned tufts atop the head are ear ornaments, jewelry usually reserved for nobility and shamans. Combining human with animal characteristics indicates this piece may represent a shaman in his vulture form. The shaman-vulture incarnation is made even more powerful by the diminutive jaguar shown clenched in the beak. The wearer would assert his dominance by wearing this pendant on his chest.
[Gallery label text, 2009]
1954.38
item
Memorial Art Gallery
2/3/2001
54.38SL1
slide
w/ 54.36, 54.37, 54.66
2 x 2
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54.38DI1
digital image
2 x 2
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54.38DI#2
digital image
7/28/2009
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