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Ear Spool
c. 400-900
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Harvard archaeologists excavated these 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.
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Details
- Title: Ear Spool
- Date Created: c. 400-900
- Physical Dimensions: Diameter: 3 cm (1 3/16 in.); Overall: 3 cm (1 3/16 in.)
- Provenance: These ear spools were excavated by the Harvard Peabody Museum between 1930 and 1933.
- Type: Metalwork
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.192
- Medium: hammered gold
- Department: Art of the Americas
- Culture: Panama, Conte style, 5th - 10th century
- Credit Line: Roberta Holden Bole Fund
- Collection: AA - Intermediate Region
- Accession Number: 1958.192
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