蒙面人物吊坠 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	蒙面人物吊坠
品名（英）	Masked Figure Pendant
入馆年号	1991年，1991.419.31
策展部门	迈克尔·洛克菲勒之翼（The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing）
创作者
创作年份	公元 900 - 公元 1600
创作地区	哥伦比亚（Colombia）
分类	金属装饰品（Metal-Ornaments）
尺寸	高 5 1/4 × 宽 5 3/4 × 深 2 英寸 (13.3 × 14.6 × 5.1 厘米)
介绍（中）	哥伦比亚北部圣玛尔塔内华达山脉的泰罗纳人生产了一些美洲有史以来最宏伟、最复杂的黄金制品。这款吊坠是泰罗纳金工拥有的技巧和精湛技艺的一个很好的例子。它体积相当大，描绘了一个宽肩男性形象，以对抗性的双手放在臀部的姿势站立。他的头是鳄鱼或蝙蝠的头。他戴着一个动物面具，有一个方形的牙齿鼻子和菱形的鼻叶。遮住头部的是一个巨大的头饰，与人物本身一样高。它的帽子正面有两只大喙鸟，精致的侧面带有详细的螺旋和编织元素。该人物可能描绘了处于象征和精神转变状态的统治者、超自然祖先或萨满，其特征呈现出帮助动物精神的特征。像这样强大的形象，本来可以由一个在泰罗纳社会中强大的人来佩戴。吊坠是通过失蜡工艺铸造的。其表面随后通过耗尽法富集，也称为 mise-en-couleur。
介绍（英）	The Tairona people of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northern Colombia produced some of the grandest and most complex gold objects ever made in the Americas. This pendant is an excellent example of the skill and virtuosity possessed by Tairona goldworkers. Of considerable volume, it depicts a broad-shouldered male figure standing in a confrontational hands-on-hips stance. His head is that of a crocodilian or bat. He is wearing an animal mask with a square toothy snout and diamond-shaped nose leaf. Covering the head is an enormous headdress that is as tall as the figure itself. It has two big-beaked birds on the front of its cap and elaborate sidepieces with detailed spiral and braided elements. The figure may portray a ruler, a supernatural ancestor, or a shaman in the state of symbolic and spiritual transformation, in which its features assume those of a helping animal spirit. A powerful image such as this one would have been worn by an individual who was himself powerful in Tairona society. The pendant was cast of tumbaga by the lost-wax process. Its surface was subsequently enriched by the depletion method, also known as mise-en-couleur.