id: 128959
accession number: 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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CREATORS
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measurements: Diameter: 2 cm (13/16 in.); Overall: 15.5 cm (6 1/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; November 9, 1945-January 6, 1946. "Art of the Americas."
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 this and seven other ornaments 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 a large chest plaque and the rod-shaped ear ornament shown here.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 336
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