Unknown Central and South American
Necklace Assembly with Pendants in the Form of a Stylized Frog and Two Musicians, with disk-shaped beads

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Artist Unknown Central and South American

CultureVeraguas

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Necklace Assembly with Pendants in the Form of a Stylized Frog and Two Musicians, with disk-shaped beads

Date900–1550 AD

PlacePanama

MediumStone and gold

DimensionsOverall (Length of necklace, doubled, including pendant): 14 1/2 in. (36.8 cm)
Overall (Largest pendant): 3 1/8 × 2 1/8 × 3/4 in. (7.9 × 5.3 × 1.9 cm)
Overall (Smaller pendant (Musician)): 1 × 5/8 × 1/4 in. (2.5 × 1.5 × 0.6 cm)
Overall (Smaller pendant (Musician)): 1 1/8 × 3/4 × 1/4 in. (2.8 × 1.9 × 0.6 cm)

Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.

Object number2010.488

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Department

Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection

Object Type

METALWORK

Provenance(Sold at Sotheby's NY, 5.20.1986, lot #78);
Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. Collection, Houston, since 1986 [Glassell Album #10, slide dated "MAY 86"];
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2010, 2010.4488

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