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| Keywords: Panamanian - Bell Pendant with Toucan - Walters 57296 - Group.jpg 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 between 800 1521 Pre-Early Conquest gold and copper alloy cm 2 7 accession number 57 296 18220 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 city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1911 place of origin Veraguas-Gran Chiriquí in present-day Panama Walters Art Museum license Pre-Columbian art in the Walters Art Museum Pre-Columbian metalwork of Panama Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
