Keywords: Panamanian - Pendant of Jaguar with Two Double-Headed Snakes - Walters 57300 - Group.jpg Pendants were worn by men around the neck on ceremonial occasions Columbus noted that the inhabitants of Panama who came to greet him wore gold pendants This piece could have been created in Columbus's time or during the previous 600 years This figure represents a jaguar with which a warrior wanted to associate Two animals are frequently combined creating a mythic creature with composite attributes and animals may have two heads This jaguar holds one double-headed snake in his forepaws and mouth and another in his hind paws Loops for suspension are under the forepaws between 800 1521 Pre-Early Conquest gold and copper alloy cm 8 7 accession number 57 300 33349 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 Double-headed serpents Jaguars in art of Panama Pre-Columbian jaguar pendants |