Pendant
35-17-17
From: Costa Rica | Guanacaste | Nicoya
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 35-17-17 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Chorotegan |
| Provenience | Costa Rica | Guanacaste | Nicoya |
| Culture Area | Central American |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Stone |
| Description | Fine-grained grey stone. Modified celt-form, oblong; made by sawing through the shaped stone, edgewise, the lengthwise median ridge showing on the reverse but ground down. Upper part, by incised lines and notched edges, presents a human figure, seated cross-legged, and with head-dress of two animal heads? dos-a-dos. A bi-conical perforation in each shoulder. |
| Length | 15.9 cm |
| Width | 2.86 cm |
| Credit Line | Exchange with Jorge Lines, 1935 |
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