pendant
- Museum number
- Am1977,12.1
- Description
-
Pendant in the shape of a human figure heavily adorned, made in tumbaga by lost-wax casting. It wears a headdress surmounted by two human figures, a heart-shaped gold pectoral, ear-spools and leg-bands.
- Production date
- 100BC-1200 (?)
- Dimensions
-
Height: 3.40 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1977:
Gold figurine with two small figures on the head.
Colombia [Quimbaya].
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
Exhibited:
1996, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 1), 'Gilded Image'
- Acquisition date
- 1977
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1977,12.1
