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| Keywords: Panamanian - Crocodile Pendant - Walters 57302 - Group.jpg Pendants were worn by men around the neck on ceremonial occasions Columbus noted that the inhabitants of Panama who came to greet him wore gold pendants This piece could have been created in Columbus's time or during the previous 600 years The animals represented are often fierce ones with which a warrior would have wanted to associate Two animals are frequently combined creating a mythic creature with composite attributes This crocodile-like pendant has either a double-tongue or more likely a double-headed snake in its mouth The tail is divided in two parts The heads of the snake as well as the claws of the feet are formed of spiral-like attachments The loops for suspension are under the forefeet between 800 1521 Pre-Early Conquest gold and copper alloy cm 6 03 accession number 57 302 36123 Henry Walters Baltimore 1911 mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1911 place of origin Veraguas-Gran Chiriquà in present-day Panama Walters Art Museum license Pre-Columbian art in the Walters Art Museum Pre-Columbian metalwork of Panama Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
