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Ornament from Sitio Conte: Small Plaque

c. 400–500

Panama, Conte style, 5th - 10th century

Hammered gold

Overall: 9.3 x 10 cm (3 11/16 x 3 15/16 in.)

The Norweb Collection 1951.155

Location

233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region

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This disk was excavated from a burial containing three bodies.

Description

Harvard archaeologists excavated this ornament from Grave 32 at Sitio Conte, a cemetery famous for its lavish graves of powerful chieftains. The warm gleam of gold linked rulers with the sun’s creative force.

Provenance

1930s-1952

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., to John Wise Ltd. Galleries, New York, NY

1930s-1951

Raymond Henry Norweb [1894-1983] and Emery May Holden Norweb [1895-1984], Cleveland OH, 1951, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1951

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Citations

Lothrop, S. K. "Archaeology of Southern Veraguas, Panama" Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. 9:3 (1950) p. 285, fig. 252

Bennett, Wendell C. Ancient Arts of the Andes. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1966. p. 158, fig. 184

Couch, N. C. Christopher, Joanna Eckman, Daniel Jussim, and Jacquelyn Hamm Southern. Faces of Eternity Masks of the Pre-Columbian Americas [Anläßlich Der Ausstellung Vom 19. September - 15. Dezember, 1991 in Americas Society. Dalton: Studley Pr, 1991. Cat. No. 31, p. 32

Exhibition history

New York, NY: Museum of Modern Art; January 26-March 26, 1954. "Ancient Arts of the Andes," exh. cat. repr. in black and white, p. 158, fig. 184.

Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; February 23-April 3, 1966. "Treasures of Peruvian Gold."

New York, NY: Americas Society Art Gallery; September 19 - December 15, 1991. "Faces of
Eternity: Masks of the Pre-Columbian Americas", cat. no. 31, listed p. 72, repr. in black and
white, p. 32.

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