
Filagree Pendant in the Form of a Frog or Toad
Coclé · 500–1000
Provenance
Ownership history
- Lee E. Montgomery, St. Charles, Ill., by 1951 [documentation in curatorial files]; sold to the Art Institute, 1969.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/7966/the-ancient-americas-art-from-sacred-landscapes"><em>The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes</em></a>, Oct. 10, 1992–Jan. 3, 1993, cat. 52, as <em>Pendant Depicting Frog</em>; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Feb. 4–April 18, 1993; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 6–Aug. 15, 1993.
Literature
Published references
- Samuel K. Lothrop, "Jewelry from the Panama Canal Zone," Archaeology 9, 1 (Spring 1956), pg. 40, fig. 7 (ill.).
- Allen Wardwell, “Some New Acquisitions of Pre-Hispanic Gold,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 67, 1 (Jan.-Feb. 1973), pg. 18, fig. 2 (ill.).
- Mary W. Helms, Middle America: A Culture History of Heartland and Frontiers (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1975), 113, fig. 7.1
- Richard Townsend, ed., <em>The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), 376, cat. 52, as <em>Pendant Depicting Frog</em>.
- Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, <em>Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 263, cat. 209 (ill.).)
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