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Framed Masked-Figure Pendant


Veraguas, Period V
700-1550 CE
12.7 cm x 10.8 cm x 5.4 cm (5 in. x 4 1/4 in. x 2 1/8 in.)
tumbaga
PC.B.370

Not on view


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Bibliography
Benson, Elizabeth P. 1963 Handbook of the Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art. Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C., p. 44, cat. 233.

Birmingham Museum of Art (ED.) 1960 Pan-American Exhibition. Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham. pl. 7.

Easby, Dudley T. 1959 Golden Treasure from the New World: Pre-Columbus: South American Fortnight. Neiman-Marcus, Dallas, Texas. cat. 49.

Emmerich, Andre 1965 Sweat of the Sun and Tears of the Moon: Gold and Silver in Pre-Columbian Art. University of Washington Press, Seattle. fig. 134.

Graham, Mark Miller 2003 Creation Imagery in the Goldwork of Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia. In Gold and Power in Ancient Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia: A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 9 and 10 October 1999, Jeffrey Quilter and John W. Hoopes, eds., pp. 279-299. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections, Washington, D.C. p. 286, fig. 9.

Lothrop, Samuel K. 1937 Cocle, an Archaeological Study of Central Panama. Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology 7:71. fig. 44.

Uhle, Max 1925 Cronologia y Relaciones De Las Antiguas Culturas Panamenas. Quito. fig. 4.

Von Winning, Hasso 1968 Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America. Harry N. Abrams Inc., New York. pl. 573.



Exhibition History
"Golden Treasure from the New World", Nieman-Marcus, Dallas, TX, 10/18-10/31/1959.

"Pan-American Exhibition", Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL, 2/5 - 2/29/1960.

"Indigenous Art of the Americas", National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, September 1960 - July 1962.


Acquisition History
Formerly in the collection of Otto Haack.

Purchased from Ralph M. Chait, New York (dealer), by Robert Woods Bliss, November 9, 1956.

Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art, Washington, DC, 1956-1962.

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Pre-Columbian Collection, Washington, DC.


Object Last Modified: 11/16/2023