Jaguar Pendant

800-1521 (Pre-Columbian)

9 cm 3.5 cm

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This pendant represents a jaguar, an animal with which a warrior would have wanted to be associated. The animal's mouth is open to display its dangerous teeth, and the end of its characteristic tail is curled upwards. The front feet have loops for suspension.Raw and refined go...

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[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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