id: 135162 accession number: 1958.191.a share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.191.a updated: 2022-06-10 18:37:48.808000 Ear Spool, c. 400-900. Panama, Conte style, 5th - 10th century. Hammered gold; diameter: 3.1 cm (1 1/4 in.); overall: 3.2 cm (1 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Roberta Holden Bole Fund 1958.191.a title: Ear Spool title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 400-900 creation date earliest: 400 creation date latest: 900 current location: 233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region creditline: Roberta Holden Bole Fund copyright: --- culture: Panama, Conte style, 5th - 10th century technique: hammered gold department: Art of the Americas collection: AA - Intermediate Region type: Metalwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Diameter: 3.1 cm (1 1/4 in.); Overall: 3.2 cm (1 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; February 23-April 3, 1966. "Treasures of Peruvian Gold." --- PROVENANCE --- 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 a rod-shaped ear ornament. --- 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/1958.191.a/1958.191.a_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.191.a/1958.191.a_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.191.a/1958.191.a_full.tif