Bell Pendant with Toucan
Bells played an important role in ritual activities, costume decoration, and burial offerings. This bell has an open bottom, a plaited band around the body and the upper edge. On the top of the bell is a figure of a toucan and a loop for suspension.
Artifact
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18220
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object
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normalized
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provenance
[Found at a graveyard between Divalá (a village on the outskirts of settled Panama, thirty miles west of David in the province of Chiriqui) and Costa Rica, Spring 1909]; Tiffany & Co. New York, 1910, by purchase [from ""Indians,"" see December 29, 1910 correspondance from Tiffany & Co. to Henry Walters]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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en
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1
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import
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| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.296 |
Terms
Culture
Panamanian
Medium
gold and copper alloy
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