Alligator Pendant, between 800 and 400 BCE

  • Olmec, Precolumbian

Carved blue jade

  • Overall: 4 1/8 × 1 1/2 inches (10.5 × 3.8 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Director's Discretionary Fund

66.220

Department

Indigenous Americas

1966-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Olmec, Precolumbian, Alligator Pendant, between 800 and 400 BCE, carved blue jade. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Director's Discretionary Fund, 66.220.