id: 128959 accession number: 1951.547 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.547 updated: 2023-01-10 23:36:48.656000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: 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 copyright: --- culture: Panama, Conte style, 5th - 10th century technique: hammered gold, with greenstone department: Art of the Americas collection: AA - Intermediate Region type: Metalwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Diameter: 2 cm (13/16 in.); Overall: 15.5 cm (6 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- 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." --- PROVENANCE Grave 26, excavated by the Harvard Peabody Museum, 1930-1933 date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- 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 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.547/1951.547_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.547/1951.547_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.547/1951.547_full.tif