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Gold pendant (decorative plate)

The trapezoidal sheet could have been used as a head or chest ornament, clothing utensil, offering, barter object or burial object. Quilter (2000: 184, Fig. 9.4) depicts a similar object from the El General site. (Künne 2005)

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Gold pendant (decorative plate)
Dimensions
Andere Maße: Stärke: 0,03 cm
Height: 4,4 cm
Depth: 3 cm
Width: 5,1 cm
Weight: 5,5 g
Material/Technique
Gold
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 34271

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    700 - 1550
    where
    Costa Rica
    Punta Arenas
    Buenos Aires
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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Legal status metadata
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