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Bar pendant tube depicting an alligator/man,
600–900 CE

Greater Nicoya

Late Period IV, 1000 BCE - 500 CE

2002-43

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Title

Bar pendant tube depicting an alligator/man

Dates

600–900 CE

Medium

Dark green jade

Dimensions

h. 26.2 cm., w. 3.2 cm., d. 3.6 cm., weight 644 g. (10 5/16 x 1 1/4 x 1 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the Nathan Rubin - Ida Ladd Family Foundation in honor of Ester R. Portnow

Object Number

2002-43

Place Made

North America, Costa Rica, Guanacaste Province, Nicoya peninsula

Culture

Costa Rican

Period

Pre-Columbian Central American styles and periods

Type

ornament, pendants (jewelry), jades

Materials

jade

Subject

reptiles, zoomorphic, men

"Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2002," <em>Record of the Princeton University Art Museum</em> 62 (2003): p. 107-161., p. 144 (illus.), p. 148

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Greater Nicoya, Late Period IV (1000 BCE - 500 CE), 600–900 CE, Guanacaste Province, Nicoya peninsula, Costa Rica, Intermediate area, Bar pendant tube depicting an alligator/man. Dark green jade; 26.2 x 3.2 x 3.6 cm., 644g. Gift of the Nathan Rubin - Ida Ladd Family Foundation in honor of Ester R. Portnow (2002-43) https://artmuseum-beta.princeton.edu/art/collections/objects/40745

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