Ornament from Sitio Conte: Small Plaque

Cleveland Museum of Art

Ornament from Sitio Conte: Small Plaque

Date
c. 400–500
Medium
hammered gold
Culture
Panama, Conte style, 5th - 10th century
Department
Art of the Americas
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
128161

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Harvard archaeologists excavated this ornament from Grave 32 at Sitio Conte, a cemetery famous for its lavish graves of powerful chieftains. The warm gleam of gold linked rulers with the sun’s creative force. This disk was excavated from a burial containing three bodies.

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Credit line
The Norweb Collection
Provenance
1930s-1952: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., to John Wise Ltd. Galleries, New York, NY | 1930s-1951: Raymond Henry Norweb [1894-1983] and Emery May Holden Norweb [1895-1984], Cleveland OH, 1951, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1951: The Cleveland Museum of Art

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    Pre-Columbian Body Adornment

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