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  Worldvisitguide > Places > Metropolitan Museum... > Precolombian Art > Jan Mitchell Treasury... > Masked figure pendant
Masked figure pendant
Artist : Anonyme

Date : between the Xth and the XVIth century

Material : Copper and gold alloy
Acquisition : Gift of the H. L. Bache Foundation (1969)
Les Tairona
Item 20 on 269
Precolombian Art
Jewel (Pendentif)

Vitrine : 1

Area related
Colombie


Description   

Ce bijou représente un dignitaire, certainement un cacique, en habit d'apparât. Les ornements du visage, représentés de façon très méticuleuse, sont comparables à ceux retrouvés dans les tombes taironas.
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