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Source Description
Colombia's Tolima region is justly famous for arrestingly abstracted figures like this one, among the largest of its kind. Such figures, worn as necklace pendants by chiefs and other elites, seem to be based on the human form. But they also incorporate animal features, often an upturned, bifurcated tail sometimes compared to that of a serpent and large, angled head appendages that may refer to animal ears or even insect antennae.
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Document identity
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172387
label
Figural Pendant
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object
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1
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172387
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object
title
Figural Pendant
description
Colombia's Tolima region is justly famous for arrestingly abstracted figures like this one, among the largest of its kind. Such figures, worn as necklace pendants by chiefs and other elites, seem to be based on the human form. But they also incorporate animal features, often an upturned, bifurcated tail sometimes compared to that of a serpent and large, angled head appendages that may refer to animal ears or even insect antennae.
date
1–800 CE
citation
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60746905
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Metalwork
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 29.4 x 16.2 x 1 cm (11 9/16 x 6 3/8 x 3/8 in.)
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Isthmian Region (Colombia), Tolima
accession
2015.1
Source extras
tec
gold, cast and hammered
tombstone
Figural Pendant, 1–800 CE. Isthmian Region (Colombia), Tolima. Gold, cast and hammered; overall: 29.4 x 16.2 x 1 cm (11 9/16 x 6 3/8 x 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 2015.1
collection
AA - Intermediate Region
didYouKnow
Pendants in the form of figures with X-shaped bodies are an iconic Tolima type.
citations
citation
Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Museum Masters: 2016-17 Companion Guide.</em> [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 82-83
citation
Bergh, Susan E. “Acquisitions 2015: Pre-Columbian and Native North American Art.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 56, no. 2 (March/April 2016): 32-33.
page_number
Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 32
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Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
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2026-05-29 08:50:04.704000
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172387
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Art of the Americas
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AA - Intermediate Region
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gold, cast and hammered
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photo
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