Finial with bird-helmeted figure Artist: Unknown

1000–1400

Art of the Ancient Americas

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Gold

Dimensions

2 × 2 3/16 × 7/8 in. (5.1 × 5.5 × 2.2 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Thomas T. Solley, B.A. 1950

Accession Number

2002.15.5

Geography

Colombia

Culture

Colombia, Tairona

Classification

Jewelry

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance
With André Emmerich Gallery, New York, by 1965 (inv.no. LC-22); sold to Thomas T. Solley (1924–2006), Bloomington, Ind., December 21, 1976; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2002

Bibliography
  • "Acquisitions 2002," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2003), 131
  • Rebecca Stone-Miller, Art of the Andes: From Chavin to Inca (London: Thames and Hudson, 1995), for general information about gold work in the Northern Andes
  • Julie Jones, The Art of Precolumbian Gold: The Jan Mitchell Collection, exh. cat. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1985), 170–1, no. 44, ill
  • Professor George A. Kubler, The Art and Architecture of Ancient America, 3d ed. (New York: Penguin Books, 1984),
  • Peter T. Furst, Sweat of the Sun, Tears of the Moon: Gold and Emerald Treasures of Colombia, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: National History Museum Alliance of Los Angeles County, 1981),
  • Heather Lechtman, Pre-Columbian Metallurgy of South America (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1979), pgs. 1–40
  • Clemencia Plazas de Nieto and Ana María Falchetti de Sáenz, El Dorado Colombian Gold: A Selection of Ancient Gold Objects from the Museo del Oro, Bogotá, Colombia, exh. cat. (Sydney: Australian Art Exhibitions Corp, 1978),
  • André Emmerich, Sweat of the Sun and Tears of the Moon: Gold and Silver in Pre-Columbian Art (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1965),
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

animal art, human figures (visual works), pendants (jewelry)

Subject

birds (animals) jewelry standing

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