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
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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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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."<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 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. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 336
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