蛇形设计吊坠 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	蛇形设计吊坠
品名（英）	Pendant with Serpent Design
入馆年号	1979年，1979.206.446
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 1400
创作地区	美国, 田纳西州（United States, Tennessee）
分类	贝壳饰品（Shell-Ornaments）
尺寸	高 4 3/16 x 宽 5 1/8 x 深 1 1/8 英寸 (10.6 x 13 x 2.8 厘米)
介绍（中）	响尾蛇的形象在密西西比时代的东南部随处可见，装饰在这个贝壳吊坠上的有翼蛇的复杂形象是其最具风格化的表现之一。蛇的身体以几何和图形的方式围绕着吊坠，以多个视角和一种简写的方式呈现，其中单个部分代表整体。尾巴的人字形响尾出现在左下角，从上方可以看到，而大齿则从正面可以看到。牙齿比爬行动物更像人，尤其是它们不祥的、咧嘴笑的均匀度。在当时的美洲原住民思想中，蛇与黑社会联系在一起，它们的形象象征着佩戴者的特殊地位这个吊坠，也被称为gorget，是由外壳制成的，从顶部的两个孔悬挂在脖子上。背面的一个旧标签说，这个吊坠来自田纳西州汉密尔顿县奇卡莫加溪的一个土堆。它的发现日期尚不清楚。密西西比人是指大约公元800年至1600年间中西部和东南部的文化模式。
介绍（英）	Rattlesnake imagery was pervasive during Mississippian times in the Southeast, and the complex representation of a winged serpent adorning this shell pendant is one of its most stylized manifestations. Worked in a geometric and graphic manner, the body of the serpent encircles the pendant, rendered in multiple perspectives and in a sort of shorthand where individual parts stand for the whole. The chevron-shaped rattles of the tail appear at the lower left and are seen from above, while the great teeth are viewed frontally. The teeth are more human than reptilian and are particularly visible in their ominous, grinning evenness. In Native American thought at the time, serpents were associated with the underworld and images of them symbolized the wearer's special status. This pendant, or gorget as the type is also called, was made of shell to be suspended about the neck from the two holes at the top. An old label on the back says that the pendant comes from a mound on Chickamauga Creek, Hamilton County, Tennessee. The date of its discovery is not known. Mississippian is the name given to the cultural patterns of the Midwest and Southeast between circa 800 and 1600 A.D.