© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.

ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Vulture Pendant

Possible OriginPanama, Central America, North America

Possible OriginCosta Rica, Central America, North America

CultureChiriqui or Veraguas

PeriodPeriod V - Period VI

Date700-1530 CE

MediumGold-copper alloy

Credit LineGift of Dr. John R. McLaren

Dimensions1 3/4 x 2 1/16 x 9/16 in. (4.4 x 5.3 x 1.4 cm)

Object number1999.005.002

Exhibition HistorySeeing with New Eyes: Pre-Columbian Art from the Thibideau Collection, Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, March 4 - October 13, 1992
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - 2001
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 13, 2002 - June 2012
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, February 9, 2013 - Present
Published ReferencesRebecca Stone-Miller, Seeing With New Eyes: Highlights of the Michael C. Carlos Museum Collection of Art of the Ancient Americas (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2002), 160-61, figure 386.
Michael C. Carlos Museum: Highlights of the Collections (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2011), 75.
Laura M. Wingfield, "Greenstone Axe to Gold Eagle Pendant: The Sex Change of Costa Rica's Symbol of National Pride," in Dressing the Part: Power, Dress, Gender, and Representation in the Pre-Columbian Americas, ed. Sarahh E.M. Scher and Billie J.A. Follensbee (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2017), 326, figure 9.1.

ProvenanceEx coll. Dr. John R. McLaren (1922-2005), Decatur, Georgia, purchased from Paul Clifford (1915-2003), North Carolina, 1982-1983.

Status

On view

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