South America - Colombia
Tierradentro
Gold & Metals Exhibit
Tierradentro Gold Objects
Gold and precious metal objects from the Tierradentro culture of
Colombia
The Spaniards gave the
name Tierra Adentro to the mountainous knots and deep canyons in
north east Cauca province, where they felt they were closed in by the
mountains. Communities of farmers and potters lived there from around 1100
B.C. onwards.
Funeral regalia
consisting of sumptuous metal objects from the Middle Period (150 B.C. to
900 A.D.) has been found in well tombs with side chambers. In contrast to
these splendid examples of regalia, other tombs have contained no more than
a few pottery vessels. However, better known are the secondary burials in
underground funeral chambers or hypogea, carved out of the high mountains in
shapes which recall the homes of the living. Pottery urns were placed in
these, containing the exhumed bones of one or more persons. Medium-sized
anthropomorphous statues were also carved, with naturalistic features and
expressions. The present-day Páez indians came to Tierradentro after the
Conquest.
Cast Gold Bracelet 150 d.C. - 900 d.C.
Río Chiquito, Páez, Cauca 5,4 x 8 cm
Museo
del Oro, Bogotá
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Laminate Gold
Mask 150 d.C - 900 d.C.
Ricaurte, Páez, Cauca 8,7 x 12,7 cm
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