pendant
- Museum number
- Am1958,03.73
- Description
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Anthropomorphic pendant made of tumbaga by lost-wax casting. It depicts a stylised human figure with a two mushroom-shaped headdress holding two instruments, apparently rattles, in his hands.
- Production date
- 200BC-1200 (?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 2.50 centimetres
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Width: 1.50 centimetres
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Depth: 1 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1958:
? [sic] Tumbaga ornament in the form of a small masked figure with its hands before its face.
Dredged up from the CAUCA river between POPAYAN and CALLE, COLOMBIA, S. Am.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
Exhibited:
1978-1979, London, BM, The Gold of El Dorado
1996, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 1), 'Gilded Image'
- Acquisition date
- 1958
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1958,03.73
