Toucan Staff Top

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CultureZenú (Sinú)

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Toucan Staff Top
Finial of a toucan

Date1–1550

PlaceColombia, South America

MediumCast gold

Dimensions4 1/4 × 1 3/4 × 3 1/4 in. (10.8 × 4.4 × 8.3 cm)

Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.

Object number2001.962

Not on view

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Department

Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection

Object Type

CEREMONIAL OBJECTS & REGALIA

Provenance[Sotheby's, New York, November 22, 1999, lot 50]; purchased by Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. (1913–2008), Houston, 1999–2001; given to MFAH, 2001.

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