Gold Ornament, Frog Effigy
date: label: Accession Date
content: 26 Sep 1949
name: label: Donor Name
content: Old World Archeology Fund
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "3-wire "tongue" with reversed spirals added at ends. Paired loops under neck; body hollow. Weight 31.5 gr. Ex. Exhibit Hall 23 9-17-74."
label: Notes
content: The Frog Effigy is an open back casting with a split tongue formed from triple wax threads terminating in a doubled scroll on either side of the head. The body is long and ovoid with two thin angular legs sticking out of either side and the typical then, flat, oversized feet. The eyes are raised beads. Two round suspension loops are worked into the original wax and extend from the sides of the body behind the head. Pitted, porous surfaces noted in the open, unburnished back and in recesssed crevices overall are typical artifacts of the casting process. Thin wax wires behind the terminal tongue scrolls and two raised round beads along the top edge of the split tonges at the back of the frong are all remnants of wax wire channels, placed to aid the flow of metal during casting.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Apr 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Chiriqui, Panama, Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 184319
label: USNM Number
content: A396672-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Ornament