Costa Rica or Panama
Greater Chiriqui 

Gold
A.D. 900–1520 CE
Height: 2 in; Width: 1.5 in; Depth: 1.5 in
Aerophones – Idiophones – Struck – Bell

This avian gold bell (possibly from the Greater Chiriqui) with a hemispherical-shaped resonator is surmounted by four small birds with a conjoined tail.  The birds atop the bell have semi-spherical eyes each attached across to the next birdhead’s eye. Their beaks curving downward resemble that of the king vulture (Sarcoramphus papa). Like other bells from the Central American Isthmus, this is a lost-wax-cast, meaning that it was originally designed in wax and then molten metal melted out the wax to solidify into the form that is preserved today. Two circular bands connect the finial to the resonator. Missing is a metal clapper (inside) that moves around and strikes the walls of the resonator.

Birds are a common motif in Isthmian art, that is, art from the region of Central America that includes present-day Panama, Costa Rica, and part of Pacific Nicaragua.

Resource: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/309938