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Double Bird-Headed Figure Pendant   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Double Bird-Headed Figure Pendant
Object type Metalwork
Description
Among the pendants shown here are a crustacean (1943.290), an animal-headed figure (1948.18), and two pendants featuring birds (1951.442 and 1946.223). The latter were dubbed aguilas (eagles) by Christopher Columbus, who saw natives wearing them as necklace ornaments. Modern researchers are not as sure of the species shown, but some believe that they are birds of prey because talons and beaks are prominent and often clutch something, in one example here a small, disembodied head that holds a clapper. In both examples, two tufts in the form of crocodiles in profile flank the birds' heads.
Date between circa 1000 and circa 1500
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1000-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium Cast and hammered gold
Dimensions Overall: 7.2 x 9.4 cm (2 13/16 x 3 11/16 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q657415
Current location
Art of the Americas
Accession number
1951.442
Place of creation Costa Rica, Diquís region, 11th-16th century
Credit line Thirty-fifth anniversary gift in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Humphreys, Gift of their daughter, Helen
Source/Photographer https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.442

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