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Ear Spool
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Harvard archaeologists excavated this and seven other ornaments from several burials at Sitio Conte, a cemetery famous for its lavish graves of powerful chieftains. The young man buried in Grave 26 was such a chief. His status was stunningly memorialized by 21 human companions and 475 objects, many of them personal ornaments made of gold, including a large chest plaque and a rod-shaped ear ornament.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineEar Spool, c. 400–900. Panama, Conte style, 5th - 10th century. Hammered gold; diameter: 3.1 cm (1 1/4 in.); overall: 2.9 cm (1 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Roberta Holden Bole Fund, 1958.191.b
