Pendant of Musician with Feather Headdress Playing an Instrument

800-1521 (Pre-Colombian)

3.2 cm 6.1 cm 2.5 cm

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Humans in Pre-Conquest Panamanian art may wear headdresses that associate them with animals to address a shamanistic context. Such images of male figures serving as pendants wear only necklaces, belts, and ear ornaments.

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Tiffany & Co., New York; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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