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Gruener, 1990.160", "current_location": "233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region", "title": "Crocodile Pendant", "creation_date": "1000\u20131550", "creation_date_earliest": 1000, "creation_date_latest": 1550, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["Panama, Azuero Peninsula, Parita style, 11th-16th century"], "technique": "cast gold, modern greenstone", "support_materials": [], "department": "Art of the Americas", "collection": "AA - Intermediate Region", "type": "Metalwork", "measurements": "Overall: 6.5 x 5.5 x 4.4 cm (2 9/16 x 2 3/16 x 1 3/4 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.065, "height_inch": 2, "height_inch_fraction": 0.5625, "width": 0.055, "width_inch": 2, "width_inch_fraction": 0.1875, "depth": 0.044, "depth_inch": 1, "depth_inch_fraction": 0.75}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 344809, "title": "The Gruener Collection of Pre-Columbian Art", "description": "<i>The Gruener Collection of Pre-Columbian Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 4-November 29, 1992).", "opening_date": "1992-02-04T05:00:00"}], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [{"description": "(Stendahl Art Galleries, Los Angeles, CA, 1964, sold to James C. and Florence C. Gruener)", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "?-1964", "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "James C. [1903-1990] and Florence C. [1908-1982] Gruener, Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1964    ", "sortorder": 2}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1990", "sortorder": 3}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "The greenstone replaced a piece of carved whale bone that was once improperly paired with the pendant.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "Of great importance in ancient Panama were beings that combined crocodile features, especially the mouth, with lizard traits, such as the iguana\u2019s head crest. This example also has a back-swept nose, perhaps that of the leaf-nosed bat. The greenstone is a modern replacement for a stone or shell that once completed the crocodile\u2019s body.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60759753"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1990.160-crocodile-pendant"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Von Winning, Hasso, and Alfred Stendahl. Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America: Text and Notes by Hasso Von Winning. Selection of Plates by Alfred Stendahl. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1968.", "page_number": "p. 385, fig. 593", "url": null}, {"citation": "Young-S\u00e1nchez, Margaret. \"The Gruener Collection of Pre-Columbian Art.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 79, no. 7 (1992): 234-75.", "page_number": "Referenced: cat. no. 122, p. 274, Reproduced: fig. 122, p. 264", "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25161367."}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.160", "images": {"annotation": null, "web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.160/1990.160_web.jpg", "width": "879", "height": "893", "filesize": "363741", "filename": "1990.160_web.jpg"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.160/1990.160_print.jpg", "width": "2950", "height": "2996", "filesize": "1653846", "filename": "1990.160_print.jpg"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.160/1990.160_full.tif", "width": "2950", "height": "2996", "filesize": "26563428", "filename": "1990.160_full.tif"}}, "alternate_images": [{"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.160/1990.160_alt0_web.jpg", "width": "780", "height": "893", "filesize": "314812"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.160/1990.160_alt0_print.jpg", "width": "2968", "height": "3400", "filesize": "5438071"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.160/1990.160_alt0_full.tif", "width": "2493", "height": "2855", "filesize": "21392384"}, "date_created": "2011-11-07T15:51:38", "annotation": ""}, {"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.160/1990.160_alt1_web.jpg", "width": "934", "height": "893", "filesize": "427771"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.160/1990.160_alt1_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "3252", "filesize": "6244690"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.160/1990.160_alt1_full.tif", "width": "3907", "height": "3737", "filesize": "43827916"}, "date_created": "2010-08-17T18:48:18", "annotation": ""}, {"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.160/1990.160_alt2_web.jpg", "width": "838", "height": "893", "filesize": "380498"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.160/1990.160_alt2_print.jpg", "width": "3192", "height": "3400", "filesize": "6293681"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.160/1990.160_alt2_full.tif", "width": "3678", "height": "3917", "filesize": "43246980"}, "date_created": "2010-08-17T19:09:04", "annotation": ""}], "creditline": "Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. 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