Description
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
[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.
