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Anthropomorphous votive figure
Eastern Cordillera - Muisca Period600/1600
Museo del Oro, Bogotá
Bogota, Colombia
With their features schematically represented using a triangular support and a few lines, the “tunjos”, or Muisca votive figures, constitute a rich visual catalogue of social types. Here a mother holds her son on her left arm and a kind of staff in her right hand.
Details
- Title: Anthropomorphous votive figure
- Creator: Eastern Cordillera - Muisca Period
- Date: 600/1600
- Physical Dimensions: w25 x h84 mm
- Type: Goldwork
- External Link: People and Gold in Pre-Hispanic Colombia
- Technique: Lost wax casting in tumbaga
- Finding: Colombia
- Accession number: O04678
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