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Title:Orfebrería y chamanismo : Un estudio iconográfico del Museo del Oro del Banco de la República, Colombia
Author:Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
ISBN:9588156629 : 9789588156620
Format:Hardback
Size:255x300mm
Pages:288
Weight: 2.287 Kg.
Published:IPG (Villegas Editores) - May 2006
List Price: 49.99 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Exhibition catalogues and specific collections


The collection of the Gold Museum of the Banco de la Rep+blica de Colombia-one of the most impressive gold collections in the world-is explored in this anthropological commemoration of the gold-work mastery of indigenous peoples. An essential part of the pre-Colombian world, gold was considered by natives to be a sacred element and was used by artisans to create offerings presented by Shamans to the Gods as both prayerful sacrifices and symbols of gratitude.