COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
CMA_.1938.431
AMICA Library Year:
2002
Object Type:
Costume and Jewelry
Creator Nationality:
South American; Pre-Columbian; Chavin
Creator Name-CRT:
Peru, North Coast, Chongoyape(?), Chavín style (1000-200 BC)
Title:
Plaque
Title Type:
Primary
View:
Full View
Creation Date:
c. 500-200 BC
Creation Start Date:
-500
Creation End Date:
-200
Materials and Techniques:
hammered and cut gold
Classification Term:
Jewelry
Style or Period:
Peru, North Coast, Chongoyape(?), Chavín style (1000-200 BC)
Dimensions:
Overall: 12.5cm x 13.8cm
AMICA Contributor:
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Owner Location:
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
ID Number:
1938.431
Credit Line:
Dudley P. Allen Fund
Context:
These spectacular plaques, both showing a Chavín fanged deity of unclear identity, may belong to a horde of gold objects found on the North Coast in the 1920s. One is shaped as the deity's head, its hair (or fur) transformed into serpents. On the other, the full figure appears: each clawed foot stands on a fanged mask; under the chin rest the clawed hands; and serpents writhe from the body.
Related Image Identifier Link:
CMA_.1938.431.tif
