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Double figure effigy pendant
Chiriquí
A.D. 700–1550
Object Place: Chiriquí Province, Panama
Medium/Technique
Gold
Dimensions
8.25 x 5.4 cm (3 1/4 x 2 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Catherine Coolidge Lastavica
Accession Number1979.456
ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment
DescriptionSolid cast gold adornment rendering two human heads and torsos ending in tusk-like forms. No suspension ring is present, although it likely was worn as a pendant. The right figure's headdress flange has broken away.
ProvenanceDescended in the Coolidge Family, Massachusetts; to Catherine Coolidge Lastavica in 1958; to MFA, September 1979, gift of Catherine Coolidge Lastavica.