id:			128959
accession number:	1951.547
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url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.547
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Ear Rod, c. 700-900. Panama, Conte style, 5th - 10th century. Hammered gold, with greenstone; diameter: 2 cm (13/16 in.); overall: 15.5 cm (6 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1951.547

title:				Ear Rod
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creation date:			c. 700-900
creation date earliest:		700
creation date latest:		900
current location:		233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region
creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	Panama, Conte style, 5th - 10th century
technique:	hammered gold, with greenstone
department:	Art of the Americas
collection:	AA - Intermediate Region
type:		Metalwork
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measurements: Diameter: 2 cm (13/16 in.); Overall: 15.5 cm (6 1/8 in.)
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; November 9, 1945-January 6, 1946. "Art of the Americas."<br><br>Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; February 23-April 3, 1966.  "Treasures of Peruvian Gold."

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PROVENANCE

	Grave 26, excavated by the Harvard Peabody Museum, 1930-1933
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Harvard archaeologists excavated the eight ornaments in this case from several burials at Sitio Conte, a cemetery famous for its lavish graves of powerful chieftains. The young man buried in Grave 26 was such a chief. His status was stunningly memorialized by 21 human companions and 475 objects, many of them personal ornaments made of gold, including the large chest plaque (no. 2) and the rod-shaped ear ornament (no. 3) shown here. The creature on the chest plaque, found close to the chief’s body, has reptile claws and perhaps the head crest of an iguana. Its meaning is unknown but perhaps, as in later periods, reptilian imagery and the warm gleam of gold linked rulers with the sun’s creative force.
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