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Matching pair of gold earrings from the Zenú culture. Dating to the 1st millennium. Impressive gold jewellery with highly stylized waterbirds. Once worn as earrings by the Zenú people.

Matching pair of gold earrings from the Zenú culture. Dating to the 1st millennium. Impressive gold jewellery, once worn as earrings by the Zenú people.

Matching pair of gold earrings from the Zenú culture. Dating to the 1st millennium. Elegant gold jewellery, once worn as earrings by the Zenú people.

Beautiful small gold figure from the pre-Columbian Quimbaya culture, made by lost wax casting around 1000 years ago.

Magnificent example of the pre-Columbian Tairona culture, which produced the most impressive gold works of ancient America. In mythology, the eagle brought the seeds for one of the main crops, cassava. Made between 900 and 1550 AD.

A fine gold work once worn as a pendant around the neck by an elite. The small male figure was made by a largely uniform Panamanian culture, right before the old crafts disappeared under the influence of the Spaniards.

Imposing Peruvian vessel shaped like a man with cloak in his hands. Circa 100 to 500 AD. Exhibited multiple times and published.