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Pendant (decorative gold plate)

The sheet metal could be used as a headdress, clothing utensil, offering, barter object or burial object. Aguilar (1996: 49-51, Figs. 25-28), Ferrero (1975: 257, Ilus. II-47-50) and Quilter (2000: 184, Fig. 9.4) depict sheet metal with a round or horseshoe shape. They have embossed, engraved and punched decorations depicting rows of dots, circles or figurative motifs. (Künne 2005)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Pendant (decorative gold plate)
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 5,9 x 2,9 x 0,4 cm
Andere Maße: Stärke: 0,007 cm
Gewicht: 1,4 g
Material/Technique
Gold
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 32030 b

Provenance and sources

when
700
where
Costa Rica
San José [Provinz]
Pérez Zeledón [Kanton]
El General [Ort]
who
Alice Mertens

who
Felix Wiß - Former Possessors

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