Figural Pendant

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CultureDiquis (possibly)

Titles

Figural Pendant

Date500–1500 AD

PlaceColombia, South America

MediumGold

Dimensions5 × 2 × 1 3/8 in. (12.7 × 5.1 × 3.5 cm)

Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.

Object number2001.1034

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Department

Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection

Object Type

JEWELRY & ADORNMENT

ProvenanceHernán Páez Umaña (1917–2002) and Carlos Roberto Páez, San José, Costa Rica, 1960–1990, and Miami, 1990–1999 [1]; purchased by [Robert Duff (La Paz Ltd.), Cedar, Michigan, 1999] [1]; purchased by Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. (1913–2008), Houston, 1999–2001 [1] [2]; given to MFAH, 2001.

[1] Email from Robert Duff dated February 23, 2017.
[2] Glassell Inventory, inventory number precedes purchase on November 22, 1999.

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