Cleveland Museum of Art
Monkey Finial
- Date
- c. 800–1470
- Medium
- hammered and embossed gold alloy
- Culture
- Peru, North Coast, Sicán or Chimú, 9th-15th Century
- Department
- Art of the Americas
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
This three-dimensional sculpture constructed of sheet gold may have served as the finial for a staff or baton. It represents a monkey holding a fruit.
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