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Frog Pendant   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Anonymous (Panama)Unknown author
Title
Frog Pendant
Description
English: 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.
Date between 800 and 1521 (Pre-Early Conquest)
Medium gold and copper alloy
Dimensions 11.7 cm (4.6 in)
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
57.299
Place of creation Veraguas-Gran Chiriquí (in present-day Panama)
Object history
  • [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]
  • 1911: purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore
  • 1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters
Exhibition history World of Wonder. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1971-1972. The Taste of Maryland: Art Collecting in Maryland 1800-1934. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1984. Going for Baroque. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1995-1996.
Credit line Acquired by Henry Walters, 1911
Source Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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