Art Institute of Chicago
Double Pendant in the Form of a Mythical Saurian with Tusks
Coclé
- Date
- 800–1200
- Medium
- Gold with plaster restoration of boar tusks
- Culture
- Panama
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
Emblems of caiman and caiman-like creatures were often symbolic of the land floating in the primordial sea, thus evoking the original world creation and the ongoing ties between the mythic past and the heroic present.
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- Object type
- AAT300209261
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