Crocodile Pendant

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CultureTairona

Titles

Crocodile Pendant

Date500–1550 AD

PlaceColombia

MediumGold

DimensionsOverall: 1 1/4 × 1 1/2 × 5 1/4 in. (3.2 × 3.8 × 13.3 cm)

Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.

Object number2010.1347

Non exposé

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Department

Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection

Object Type

METALWORK

ProvenanceAlfred C. Glassell, Jr. (1913–2008), Houston, by at least 1990–until d. 2008 [1]; Estate of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr., 2008–2010; given to MFAH, 2010.

[1] Glassell inventory; near object described on October 17, 1990.
Exhibition History“Fangs, Feathers, and Fins: Sacred Creatures in Ancient American Art,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 15, 2014–March 22, 2015.

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