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Diquís Pendant of Raptor Seizing Prey
This gold pendant (1000–1550) from Costa Rica’s South Pacific shows a raptor grasping an animal in its talons and beak. Birds of prey symbolized dominance, vision, and spiritual flight. Such adornments expressed elite identity and invoked the bird’s ability to strike from above, bridging the sky and the human world.
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