Pendant in the Form of a Jaguar

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Arts of the Americas

1300–1500

Probably Veraguas
Panama

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Culture: Veraguas
Title: Pendant in the Form of a Jaguar
Place: Panama (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1300–1500
Medium: Gold
Dimensions: H.: 6 cm (2 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Raymond Wielgus
Reference Number: 1965.1160
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Alan R. Sawyer, Animal Sculpture in Pre-Columbian Art, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1957), pg. 20 (ill.).
Allen Wardwell, The Gold of Ancient America, exh. cat. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Art Institute of Chicago; and Virginia Museum with New York Graphic Society, 1968), pp. 120-121, fig. 111 (ill.
Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of
Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University Press, 2016), 262, cat. 206 (ill.).)

Art Institute of Chicago, Animal Sculpture in Pre-Columbian Art, Oct. 12, 1957–Feb. 2, 1958, cat. pg. 20 (ill.).
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Gold of Ancient America, Dec. 5, 1968–Jan. 12, 1969, cat. no. 106; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 1–Mar. 9, 1969, and Virginia Museum, Mar. 24–Apr. 20, 1969.

Raymond Wielgus (died 2010), Chicago, by 1957; given to the Art Institute, 1965.

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