Figurine

40-14-731

From: Panama | Sitio Conte

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 40-14-731
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Panama | Sitio Conte
Site Name Sitio Conte
Culture Area Central American
Locus Trench 2, Burial 24A, cache from right femur of skeleton
Section American
Materials Copper
Description

Copper figurine. Crocodile. Veraguas type; probably had gold plating. Hollow type. Bifurcated tail. Body with low relief spikes and ridge down vertebrae. Slightly conventionalized head. Ends of feet and tail missing.

Height 10 cm
Length 3.5 cm
Width 2.5 cm
Credit Line Panama, Cocle Expedition; J. Alden Mason, 1940

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