Bell
40-14-732
From: Panama | Sitio Conte
Curatorial Section: American
Object Number | 40-14-732 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Panama | Sitio Conte |
Site Name | Sitio Conte |
Culture Area | Central American |
Locus | Trench 2, Burial 25 |
Section | American |
Materials | Copper |
Description | 8 relatively large copper [?] bells; possibly tumbaga alloy or possibly originally gold plated. No two exactly alike. All spheroid or pear-shaped bodies with rattling metal pellets. 4 have ring suspension holes at top; 1 suspension ring broken; 1 suspension ring with elongation; 1 with suspension hole to side and relief figure on top. 1 with small relief bird on top and no evident mode of suspension |
Height | 1.8 cm |
Length | 2.8 cm |
Credit Line | Panama, Cocle Expedition; J. Alden Mason, 1940 |
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