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Pre-Columbian gold clothing ornament
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Gold dress ornament, according to anthropologist Mrs. C Plazas de Nieto an ear ornament belonging to 2731-7. The item is from the Quimbaya culture.‖ Goldsmiths there despised the simpler methods of their contemporaries (who processed gold primarily as gold leaf), and treated gold as a solid, substantial material used for massive sculptures and objects (Emmerich, 1965:69).‖ This specimen was probably part of a series that together formed a necklace (see Lothrop, 1957:269, no. Mrs. C. Plazas de Nieto, anthropologist and archaeologist, connected to the Museo de Oro in Bogotá, reported that according to the latest C-14 dating, the Quimbaya culture could be dated between ca. 1000-1400 A.D., hence the above mentioned dating.According to the dealer from whom Mr. Halbertsma bought this object, it originates from excavations in the Tuluá area in the Northern Cauca valley. Mr. Halbertsma bought it in Calí.
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Title: Pre-Columbian gold clothing ornament
Description:
Gold dress ornament, according to anthropologist Mrs.
C Plazas de Nieto an ear ornament belonging to 2731-7.
The item is from the Quimbaya culture.
‖ Goldsmiths there despised the simpler methods of their contemporaries (who processed gold primarily as gold leaf), and treated gold as a solid, substantial material used for massive sculptures and objects (Emmerich, 1965:69).
‖ This specimen was probably part of a series that together formed a necklace (see Lothrop, 1957:269, no.
Mrs.
C.
Plazas de Nieto, anthropologist and archaeologist, connected to the Museo de Oro in Bogotá, reported that according to the latest C-14 dating, the Quimbaya culture could be dated between ca.
1000-1400 A.
D.
, hence the above mentioned dating.
According to the dealer from whom Mr.
Halbertsma bought this object, it originates from excavations in the Tuluá area in the Northern Cauca valley.
Mr.
Halbertsma bought it in Calí.
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