Double Pendant in the Form of a Mythical Saurian with Tusks
Coclé (Coclé province, Panama)
800–1200
- Medium
- Gold with plaster restoration of boar tusks
- Classification
- Metalwork
- Dimensions
- 6 × 7 × 2.4 cm (2 3/8 × 2 3/4 × 7/8 in.)
- Culture
- Panama
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by the Auxiliary Board
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Emblems of caiman and caiman-like creatures were often symbolic of the land floating in the primordial sea, thus evoking the original world creation and the ongoing ties between the mythic past and the heroic present.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
