Pendant in the Form of an Eagle

Panama, Pre-Columbian

1070 - 1130

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headdress; nose ring
Torso, Mexico, Pre-Columbian, earthenware
Vessel in the form of a cat with mouse applied within the looped tail. The head fully featured, with applied ears, eyes, nose, and mouth with teeth and tongue. One side of the body and four legs painted with geometric stripes, including zigzags. The feet with applied claws. The back with flared vessel mouth.
Cylindrical vessel with slightly flared mouth. The exterior with a continuous panel depicting two seated chiefs or scribes wearing long, elaborate, plumed headdresses and loincloths. Above them are groups of psuedo-glyphs. In reddish-brown, black and beige pigments. Two similar seated chiefs painted around slightly corseted walls. Each slightly stooped forwar, wearing long elaborate headdress, loincloth tied at back, and right outstretched hand pointing downwards, possibly scribes. One figure has drops falling from a sloped nose, other has goatee and stares upward with mouth agape. Band of glyphs painted above. Intact with red-brown, black, and beige against light brown ground paint.