The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 17, 2024
Double Bird-Headed Figure Pendant
c. 1000–1500
Overall: 7.2 x 9.4 cm (2 13/16 x 3 11/16 in.)
Location: 233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region
Description
Among the pendants shown here are a crustacean (1943.290), an animal-headed figure (1948.18), and two pendants featuring birds (1951.442 and 1946.223). The latter were dubbed aguilas (eagles) by Christopher Columbus, who saw natives wearing them as necklace ornaments. Modern researchers are not as sure of the species shown, but some believe that they are birds of prey because talons and beaks are prominent and often clutch something, in one example here a small, disembodied head that holds a clapper. In both examples, two tufts in the form of crocodiles in profile flank the birds’ heads.- Correspondence from Samuel Lothrop to William Milliken, 18 December 1951, Box 26, Folder 9, William Mathewson Milliken Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
- Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991).Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; June 7-September 8, 1991. "Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates and Art Museum."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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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1951.442