Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; purchased by George Heye in 1929 from an unknown source in Paris, France, using funds donated by Thea (Mrs. George) Heye.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- possibly Quimbaya (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- MAI agent
- George Gustav Heye (GGH), Non-Indian, 1874-1957
- Presenter/funding source
- Thea Heye (Thea Kowne/Mrs. Dorothea Page/Mrs. George Gustav Heye), Non-Indian, 1888-1935
- Date created
- 600 BC–AD 700 (Early Quimbaya period)
- Object Name
- Bird pendant
- Media/Materials
- Gold
- Techniques
- Cast
- Object Type
- Adornment/Jewelry
