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Ornament from Sitio Conte: Small Plaque

Ornament from Sitio Conte: Small Plaque

c. 400–500
Overall: 9.3 x 10 cm (3 11/16 x 3 15/16 in.)

Did You Know?

This disk was excavated from a burial containing three bodies.

Description

Harvard archaeologists excavated this ornament from Grave 32 at Sitio Conte, a cemetery famous for its lavish graves of powerful chieftains. The warm gleam of gold linked rulers with the sun’s creative force.
  • 1930s-1952
    Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., to John Wise Ltd. Galleries, New York, NY
    1930s-1951
    Raymond Henry Norweb [1894-1983] and Emery May Holden Norweb [1895-1984], Cleveland OH, 1951, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1951
    The Cleveland Museum of Art
  • Lothrop, S. K. "Archaeology of Southern Veraguas, Panama" Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. 9:3 (1950) p. 285, fig. 252
    Bennett, Wendell C. Ancient Arts of the Andes. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1966. p. 158, fig. 184
    Couch, N. C. Christopher, Joanna Eckman, Daniel Jussim, and Jacquelyn Hamm Southern. Faces of Eternity Masks of the Pre-Columbian Americas [Anläßlich Der Ausstellung Vom 19. September - 15. Dezember, 1991 in Americas Society. Dalton: Studley Pr, 1991. Cat. No. 31, p. 32
  • New York, NY: Americas Society Art Gallery; September 19 - December 15, 1991. "Faces of
    Eternity: Masks of the Pre-Columbian Americas", cat. no. 31, listed p. 72, repr. in black and
    white, p. 32.
    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."
    New York, NY: Museum of Modern Art; January 26-March 26, 1954. "Ancient Arts of the Andes," exh. cat. repr. in black and white, p. 158, fig. 184.
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1951.155