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Bogota, Colombia: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - property of the Bank of the Republic - collection started in 1939 - Carrera 6, Calle 16 - photo by M.Torres Bogotá: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - property of the Bank of the Republic - collection started in 1939 - Carrera 6, Calle 16 Bogota, Colombia: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - elegant and minimalistic interior architecture - stairway - photo by M.Torres Bogotá: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - elegant and minimalistic interior architecture - stairway

Bogota, Colombia: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - white marble façade on Parque Santander - architect Germán Samper Gnecco - houses a collection of 40,000 pre-Hispanic pieces in gold, wood, shell, stone and textiles - Banco de la República - photo by M.Torres Bogotá: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - white marble façade on Parque Santander - architect Germán Samper Gnecco - houses a collection of 40,000 pre-Hispanic artifacts - Banco de la República Bogota, Colombia: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - gold jewelry - embossing goldworking technique - pre-Hispanic metallurgy - photo by M.Torres Bogotá: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - gold jewelry - embossing goldworking technique - pre-Hispanic metallurgy
Bogota, Colombia: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - shaman incarnation as a bird - Cauca gold breastplate - lost wax method - photo by M.Torres Bogotá: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - shaman incarnation as a bird - Cauca gold breastplate - lost wax method Bogota, Colombia: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - luxury objects used by chieftains, when they died, these objects were buried with them - photo by M.Torres Bogotá: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - luxury objects used by chieftains, when they died, these objects were buried with them
Bogota, Colombia: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - hammered human figure with spread arms - goldsmiths used the annealing technique - photo by M.Torres Bogotá: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - hammered human figure with spread arms - goldsmiths used the annealing technique Bogota, Colombia: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - sitting ceramic figure - photo by M.Torres Bogotá: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - sitting ceramic figure
Bogota, Colombia: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - Tumaco roller used for painting the body - photo by M.Torres Bogotá: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - Tumaco roller used for painting the body Bogota, Colombia: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - Tairona ear ornaments - the surface gilding has not resisted time, revealing the 'tumbaga' inside, a pre-Columbian alloy of gold and copper, it has a lower melting point that either metal - Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta - photo by M.Torres Bogotá: Gold Museum - Tairona ear ornaments - the surface gilding has not resisted time, revealing the 'tumbaga' inside, a alloy of gold and copper - Sierra Nevada de Sta Marta
Bogota, Colombia: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - ceramic statue with deformed skull and ornaments inserted in the skin - from Pupiales, Nariño Department, Andes - photo by M.Torres Bogotá: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - ceramic statue with deformed skull and ornaments inserted in the skin - from Pupiales, Nariño Department, Andes Bogota, Colombia: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - regalia relating its owner to feline powers - the circular plates on the nose ring invoke jaguar's spots - Yotoco period - photo by M.Torres Bogotá: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - regalia relating its owner to feline powers - the circular plates on the nose ring invoke jaguar's spots - Yotoco period
Bogota, Colombia: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - elaborate human figure - combines feline, bird and fish elements - Tolima - photo by M.Torres Bogotá: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - elaborate human figure - combines feline, bird and fish elements - Tolima Bogota, Colombia: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - Yotoco icon - impassive face - photo by M.Torres Bogotá: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - Yotoco icon - impassive face
Bogota, Colombia: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - Yotoco pectoral, hieratic face as the central motif, adorned with large nose and ear ornaments - embossing technique - Calima region - photo by M.Torres Bogotá: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - Yotoco pectoral, hieratic face as the central motif, adorned with large nose and ear ornaments - embossing technique - Calima region Bogota, Colombia: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - rings - photo by M.Torres Bogotá: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - rings
Bogota, Colombia: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - painted ceramic vase - geometrial design - photo by M.Torres Bogotá: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - painted ceramic vase - geometrial design Bogota, Colombia: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - sea shells used for funerary attire - Magdalena Valley - Suárez, Tolima department - photo by M.Torres Bogotá: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - sea shells used for funerary attire - Magdalena Valley - Suárez, Tolima department
Bogota, Colombia: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - invoking the powers of the bat and looking for secrets of life and death - photo by M.Torres Bogotá: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - invoking the powers of the bat and looking for secrets of life and death Bogota, Colombia: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - gold masks in the form of lifeless faces were placed on a dead person - Malangana funerary regalia - Calima - photo by M.Torres Bogotá: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - gold masks in the form of lifeless faces were placed on a dead person - Malangana funerary regalia - Calima
Bogota, Colombia: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - poporo Quimbaya - ceremonial device that held lime used when chewing coca leaves during religious ceremonies - Mid-Cauca region - photo by M.Torres Bogotá: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - poporo Quimbaya - ceremonial device that held lime used when chewing coca leaves during religious ceremonies - Mid-Cauca region Bogota, Colombia: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - shaman stirring palm leaves to heal the sick - metallurgy - lost wax method - photo by M.Torres Bogotá: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - shaman stirring palm leaves to heal the sick - metallurgy - lost wax method
Bogota, Colombia: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - pendant - gold lizard - 10th century - middle Cauca region - photo by M.Torres Bogotá: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - pendant - gold lizard - 10th century - middle Cauca region Bogota, Colombia: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - tumbaga poporo - container that held lime used when chewing coca leaves - pumpkin shaped bottle with a lid - coca was used for activating the powers of concentration, memory and speech - photo by M.Torres Bogotá: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - tumbaga poporo - container that held lime used when chewing coca leaves - pumpkin shaped bottle with a lid - coca was used for activating the powers of concentration, memory and speech
Bogota, Colombia: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - Tolima pectoral representing a symmetrical human figure in a ritual posture, the legs mirror the arms - photo by M.Torres Bogotá: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - Tolima pectoral representing a symmetrical human figure in a ritual posture, the legs mirror the arms Bogota, Colombia: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - hammered, embossed tumbaga helmet - Antioquia - Early Period, 500 B.C. to 700 A.D. - photo by M.Torres Bogotá: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - hammered, embossed tumbaga helmet - Antioquia - Early Period, 500 B.C. to 700 A.D.
Bogota, Colombia: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - bird pendant - Muisca - Eastern Cordillera - photo by M.Torres Bogotá: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - bird pendant - Muisca - Eastern Cordillera Bogota, Colombia: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - tumbaga earrings - Zenú filigree work - dignitaries and amphibian men - photo by M.Torres Bogotá: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - tumbaga earrings - Zenú filigree work - dignitaries and amphibian men
Bogota, Colombia: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - Zenú ear ornaments in cast filigree work - photo by M.Torres Bogotá: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - Zenú ear ornaments in cast filigree work Bogota, Colombia: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - filigree work ornaments by Zenú goldsmiths - ear ornaments cast by the lost wax method - photo by M.Torres Bogotá: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - filigree work ornaments by Zenú goldsmiths - ear ornaments cast by the lost wax method
Bogota, Colombia: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - pectoral - breast plate of an importan Zenú woman - photo by M.Torres Bogotá: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - pectoral - breast plate of an importan Zenú woman Bogota, Colombia: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - hammered gold helmets were the chiefs' main symbols - Quimbaya - Mid-Cauca region - photo by M.Torres Bogotá: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - hammered gold helmets were the chiefs' main symbols - Quimbaya - Mid-Cauca region
Bogota, Colombia: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - Cauca gold pins - photo by M.Torres Bogotá: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - Cauca gold pins Bogota, Colombia: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - double spiral breastplate - Urabá - photo by M.Torres Bogotá: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - double spiral breastplate - Urabá
Bogota, Colombia: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - gold ornament for the Pacific coast - Chocó pendant with schematic human figure with ritual paraphernalia - photo by M.Torres Bogotá: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - gold ornament for the Pacific coast - Chocó pendant with schematic human figure with ritual paraphernalia Bogota, Colombia: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - bird head votive figure - birds symbolised the upper world - Eastern Cordillera - Muisca - photo by M.Torres Bogotá: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - bird head votive figure - birds symbolised the upper world - Eastern Cordillera - Muisca
Bogota, Colombia: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - the Offering Room - ritual offerings in shamanism - photo by M.Torres Bogotá: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - the Offering Room - ritual offerings in shamanism Bogota, Colombia: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - anthropomorhic vessel used to collect the blood of sacrifice victims, which were pierced with arrows and bled to death - Muisca - Eastern Cordillera - photo by M.Torres Bogotá: Gold Museum - Museo del Oro - anthropomorhic vessel used to collect the blood of sacrifice victims, which were pierced with arrows and bled to death - Muisca - Eastern Cordillera
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