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{
    "localId": "27210",
    "label": "Frog Pendant",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.299"
}

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    "id": "27210",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.299",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Frog Pendant",
    "description": "Pendants were worn by men around the neck on ceremonial occasions. Columbus noted that the inhabitants of Panama who came to greet him wore gold pendants. This piece could have been created in Columbus's time or during the previous 600 years.Frogs were associated with rain and fertility, and were therefore quite popular; they could also symbolize transformation. This frog pendant has bells for eyes, and holds a double-headed snake in its mouth. Its large hind feet are flat and rectangular.",
    "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": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.299",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Gold, Silver & Jewelry",
        "pendants (jewelry)"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_57.299_Fnt_DD_T12.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 4.7,
            "height": 4.5,
            "depth": 12
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 7/8 × W: 1 3/4 × L: 4 3/4 in. (4.7 × 4.5 × 12 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Panamanian",
    "med": "gold alloy",
    "creator_ids": [
        "15521"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "AME"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1994",
        "948",
        "170"
    ]
}

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