Double Pendant in the Form of a Mythical Saurian with Tusks
Coclé
750–1250
- Medium
- Gold with plaster restoration of boar tusks
- Dimensions
- 6 × 7 × 2.4 cm (2 3/8 × 2 3/4 × 7/8 in.)
- Genre
- pendant (jewelry)
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
iguanaamericaslower central americacoclésupernaturalplastercasting (process)jewelryserpentsanimalsgoldinorganic materialnonferrous metalformingArts of the AmericasadhesionPre-Columbiancostumecoating (material)art of the americaspendant (jewelry)metal
About
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.
