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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