The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of November 12, 2024
Figural Pendant
1–800 CE
(Colombia)
Overall: 29.4 x 16.2 x 1 cm (11 9/16 x 6 3/8 x 3/8 in.)
Location: 233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region
Did You Know?
Pendants in the form of figures with X-shaped bodies are an iconic Tolima type.Description
Colombia's Tolima region is justly famous for arrestingly abstracted figures like this one, among the largest of its kind. Such figures, worn as necklace pendants by chiefs and other elites, seem to be based on the human form. But they also incorporate animal features, often an upturned, bifurcated tail sometimes compared to that of a serpent and large, angled head appendages that may refer to animal ears or even insect antennae.- ?-1969(John Wise, New York, NY, sold to an American private collector)1969-1979American Private Collector1979-2015American Private Collector by inheritance, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art2015-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum Masters: 2016-17 Companion Guide. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016. Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 82-83Bergh, Susan E. “Acquisitions 2015: Pre-Columbian and Native North American Art.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 56, no. 2 (March/April 2016): 32-33. Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 32. archive.org
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