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| Keywords: Panamanian - Pendant with Shark and Snake - Walters 57285.jpg Pendants were worn by men around the neck on ceremonial occasions Columbus noted that the inhabitants of Panama who came to greet him wore gold pendants in the shape of eagles This piece could have been created in Columbus's time or during the previous 600 years The animals represented are often fierce or they cross boundaries of nature for example live in land and water such as snakes This pendant represents a shark with a snake in its mouth A ring at the throat is used for suspension between 800 1521 Pre-Early Conquest gold and copper alloy cm 9 accession number 57 285 5647 Found at a graveyard between Divalá a village on the outskirts of settled Panama thirty miles west of David in the province of Chiriqui and Costa Rica Spring 1909 Tiffany Co New York 1910 by purchase from Indians see December 29 1910 correspondance from Tiffany Co to Henry Walters Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1911 place of origin Veraguas-Gran Chiriquí in present-day Panama Walters Art Museum license Pre-Columbian art in the Walters Art Museum Pre-Columbian metalwork of Panama Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Fish in Pre-Columbian art | ||||
