Unknown Central and South American
Alligator Pendant

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Artist Unknown Central and South American

CultureGreater Chiriqui or Coclé

Titles

Alligator Pendant

Date700–1500 AD

PlaceCentral America

MediumCast gold

Dimensions3 1/2 × 1 × 1 in. (8.9 × 2.5 × 2.5 cm)

Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.

Object number2001.1038

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Department

Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection

Object Type

JEWELRY & ADORNMENT

Provenance[Sotheby's, New York, November 24, 1986, lot 56]; purchased by Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. (1913–2008), Houston, 1986–2001 [1]; given to MFAH, 2001.

[1] Glassell Inventory, described on March 11, 1987.
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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