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Bell Pendant with Toucan
(Ancient Americas )
Bells played an important role in ritual activities, costume decoration, and burial offerings. This bell has an open bottom, a plaited band around the body and the upper edge. On the top of the bell is a figure of a toucan and a loop for suspension.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
[Found at a graveyard between Divalá (a village on the outskirts of settled Panama, thirty miles west of David in the province of Chiriqui) and Costa Rica, Spring 1909]; Tiffany & Co. New York, 1910, by purchase [from "Indians," see December 29, 1910 correspondance from Tiffany & Co. to Henry Walters]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Panama (Veraguas-Gran Chiriquí) (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 1 1/16 in. (2.7 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1911
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
57.296