About the Artwork
Alligator Pendant
between 800 and 400 BCE
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Precolumbian
Olmec
Carved blue jade
Overall: 4 1/8 × 1 1/2 inches (10.5 × 3.8 cm)
Glyptic Art
Indigenous Americas
Founders Society Purchase, Director's Discretionary Fund
66.220
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
1966-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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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.
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