A seated female figure holds a scepter in her right hand and a spear thrower (or another scepter) in her left hand. A double-ended object, perhaps a knife, hangs from her belt. Her elaborate body adornments include a long three-strand necklacae and a short three-string necklace with circular...
Provenance
Collected by Joaquin Arciniégas, Colombia, by March 1, 1906 (to San José, Costa Rica by May 23, 1908; to San Salvador, El Salvador by June 19, 1916); sold to Doctor Daniel Villatoro Rugama, San Salvador, El Salvador, August 6, 1929; sold to Oliverio Girondo, Paris, January 10, 1930 (to Argentina probably after 1946); with Leon Buki, Buenos Aires, Argentina by January 2, 1975; with Alphonse Jax, New York, by February 1975; to Landon T. Clay, Boston; to MFA, March 12, 1975, gift.
Credit Line
Gift of Landon T. Clay
Muisca, A.D. 1100–1550
Place of Origin
Departments of Cundinamarca & Boyacá, Colombia
Dimensions
12 x 2.5 cm (4 3/4 x 1 in.)
Accession Number
1975.77
Medium or Technique
Gold and copper alloy