The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 22, 2025
Ear Spool
c. 400–900
Diameter: 3.1 cm (1 1/4 in.); Overall: 3.2 cm (1 1/4 in.)
Roberta Holden Bole Fund 1958.191.a
Location: 233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region
Description
Harvard archaeologists excavated this and seven other ornaments from several burials at Sitio Conte, a cemetery famous for its lavish graves of powerful chieftains. The young man buried in Grave 26 was such a chief. His status was stunningly memorialized by 21 human companions and 475 objects, many of them personal ornaments made of gold, including a large chest plaque and a rod-shaped ear ornament.- Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 336
- Treasures of Peruvian Gold. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 23-April 3, 1966).Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; February 23-April 3, 1966. "Treasures of Peruvian Gold."
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