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Source Description
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.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
18220
label
Bell Pendant with Toucan
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obj
dtoType
object
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1
Source metadata
id
18220
sourceUrl
contentType
object
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normalized
title
Bell Pendant with Toucan
description
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.
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.
date
800-1521 (Pre-Early Conquest)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Gold, Silver & Jewelry
pendants (jewelry)
bells (idiophones)
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1
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1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
H: 1 1/16 in. (2.7 cm)
Source extras
cul
Panamanian
med
gold and copper alloy
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15521
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AME
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none
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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