id: 172387 accession number: 2015.1 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2015.1 updated: 2023-01-11 23:01:38.654000 Figural Pendant, AD 1–800. Isthmian Region (Colombia), Tolima, 1st-8th century. Gold, cast and hammered; overall: 29.4 x 16.2 x 1 cm (11 9/16 x 6 3/8 x 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2015.1 title: Figural Pendant title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: AD 1–800 creation date earliest: 1 creation date latest: 800 current location: 233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region creditline: Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund copyright: --- culture: Isthmian Region (Colombia), Tolima, 1st-8th century technique: gold, cast and hammered department: Art of the Americas collection: AA - Intermediate Region type: Metalwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 29.4 x 16.2 x 1 cm (11 9/16 x 6 3/8 x 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (John Wise, New York, NY, sold to an American private collector) date: ?-1969 footnotes: citations: American Private Collector date: 1969-1979 footnotes: citations: American Private Collector by inheritance, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1979-2015 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2015- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Pendants in the form of figures with X-shaped bodies are an iconic Tolima type. digital description: wall description: Colombia's Tolima region is justly famous for arrestingly abstracted figures like this one, among the largest of its kind. Such figures, worn as necklace pendants by chiefs and other elites, seem to be based on the human form. But they also incorporate animal features, often an upturned, bifurcated tail sometimes compared to that of a serpent and large, angled head appendages that may refer to animal ears or even insect antennae. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum Masters: 2016-17 Companion Guide. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 82-83 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2015.1/2015.1_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2015.1/2015.1_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2015.1/2015.1_full.tif