On view
Art of the Ancient Americas
Pectoral in the form of an eagle,
ca. 1200–1500
Veraguas
y1952-23
Information
Title
Pectoral in the form of an eagle
Dates
ca. 1200–1500
Medium
Gold
Dimensions
9.7 × 10.9 cm (3 13/16 × 4 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of J. Lionberger Davis, Class of 1900
Object Number
y1952-23
Place Made
North America, Panama
Culture
Materials
Techniques
Subject
July 3, 1946, Charles L. Morley (1912-1997), New York, sold to J. Lionberger Davis (1878-1973), St. Louis, Mo, subsequently Princeton, NJ [1]; 1952, gift to the Princeton University Art Museum.
Notes:
[1] According to the Princeton accession card.
- Adolphe Basler and Ernest Brummer, L'Art Precolombien (Paris: Librairie de France, 1928)., pls. 128–9
- Robert Woods Bliss, Indigenous Art of the Americas (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1947)., nos. 57–8, p. 15
- "Recent acquisitions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 12, no. 1 (1953): p. 38-39., p. 39
- "Gifts by J. Lionberger Davis, Class of 1900, to the Art Museum", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 33, no. 2 (1974): p. 24-30., p. 26
