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Breastplate with zoomorphous figure
Tierradentro, Upper Magdalena Region - Middle Period-200/900
Museo del Oro, Bogotá
Bogota, Colombia
The alligator has similar jaws to those of a jaguar. In Indian cosmologies it is the jaguar’s equivalent in the underworld.
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Details
- Title: Breastplate with zoomorphous figure
- Creator: Tierradentro, Upper Magdalena Region - Middle Period
- Creator Lifespan: -196/900
- Creator Nationality: Colombia
- Creator Death Place: Colombia
- Creator Birth Place: Colombia
- Date: -200/900
- Physical Dimensions: w263 x h330 mm
- Type: Goldwork
- External Link: People and Gold in Pre-Hispanic Colombia
- Technique: Hammered and embossed gold
- Finding: Colombia, Cauca, Páez
- Accession number: O24969
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