Bird-Man Pendant
700–1550
- Medium
- cast and hammered gold
- Dimensions
- Overall: 7.6 x 6.7 x 2 cm (3 x 2 5/8 x 13/16 in.)
- Genre
- metalwork
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Western Panama, or Diquís, Costa Rica, Veraguas-Gran Chiriquí or Diquís Style, 8th-16th Century
About
In the Panama-Costa Rica region, gold ornaments were associated with political and religious authority.