蝙蝠鼻形吊坠 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	蝙蝠鼻形吊坠
品名（英）	Bat-Nosed Figure Pendant
入馆年号	1966年，66.196.17
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 1200 - 公元 1500
创作地区	哥斯达黎加（Costa Rica）
分类	金属装饰品（Metal-Ornaments）
尺寸	高 3 1/4 × 宽 4 7/8 × 深1/2 英寸 (8.3 × 12.4 × 1.3 厘米)
介绍（中）	在地峡地区的许多柱前金饰中，有蝙蝠图像，描绘了各种各样的动物和复合生物。它们组成了一个相当大的群体，通常都有面部朝上的叶状鼻子的人体。在这里，鼻翼是一个风格化的突出环，是叶鼻蝙蝠的感应装置的一部分，它主要通过猎物反射的声音来定位食物，通常像昆虫一样小。除了鼻叶，蝙蝠人身上最具特色的特征，柄上突出的眼睛，也与蝙蝠形象有关在这件罕见的、精心铸造的吊坠上，蝙蝠头雕像饰有装饰性的腿带、项链和羽毛王冠，并以举手的方式坐在类似建筑结构入口的上方，仿佛在守护着它。四个长着牙齿的鳄鱼头轮廓突出，鼻子卷曲，从入口两侧伸出。
介绍（英）	Among the many Precolumbian gold pendants from the Isthmian region depicting a wide range of animals and composite beings are those that feature bat imagery. They form a sizable group and usually have human bodies with faces that have an upswept, leaflike nose. The nose leaf, here shown as a stylized, projecting loop, is part of the sensing apparatus of leaf-nosed bats which locate their food primarily by sound reflected off their prey, often as small as insects. In addition to the nose leaf, the most characteristic feature on human-bat figures, strongly protruding eyes depicted on stalks, is also associated with bat imagery. On this rare, carefully cast pendant, the bat-headed figure is adorned with ornamental leg bands, a necklace, and a crown of feathers, and is shown sitting with raised hands above what resembles an entrance to an architectural structure, as if guarding it. Four toothy crocodile heads in profile, with curled snouts, jut from the sides of the entrance.