Bell with Bat / Animal Deity

900-1500 (Late Intermediate)

4.3 cm 5.7 cm 3.5 cm

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With a bat head, human torso, and mitten-like hands, this bell probably represents a priest or devotee dressed as the god Heisei. The god of death and rain among the Tairona peoples of Colombia, Heisei was associated with bats, particularly leaf-nosed bats of South and Central...

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30958
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James Varón, Santa Marta, Columbia; Agueda Hernandez, Nyack, NY; Elena Austen Stokes, New York, NY; given to Walters Art Museum, 2003.
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