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Museo del Oro Zenú, Cartagena de Indias; Museo del Oro: Zenú, people and gold on the Caribbean plains; Plazas, C. e.a. (1986) La cultura del oro y el agua. Un proyecto de reconstrucción Boletín Cultural y Bibliográfico Número 6, Volumen XXIII; Sáenz, J. (1993) Mujeres de barro: estudio de las figurinas cerámicas de Montelíebano ...
The Museum of Gold (Spanish: Museo del Oro) is an archaeology museum located in Bogotá, Colombia. It is one of the most visited touristic highlights in the country. [1] The museum receives around 500,000 tourists per year. [2]
Museo del Oro Zenu Cartagena: Archeology Museo Naval del Caribe: Museo Naval del Caribe: Cartagena: History Palace of the Inquisition: Palacio de la Inquisición
These include a range of phytomorphic and zoomorphic representations, the most common figures being birds, insects, fish and bats. Measuring approximately 5 to 7.5 cm in length, there are over 100 of these relics on display in the Museo del Oro ('Gold Museum') in Bogotá, Colombia.
Many of the tunjos have been recovered from various sites and are displayed in the Museo del Oro. Other offer pieces were emeralds, snails, cloths and food. Also parrots and other colourful birds were used in the sacred rituals as they were considered having a soul. [16]
The Quimbaya Poporo, gold, attributed to the pre-Columbian Quimbaya civilization in the Andean region of present-day Colombia, ca. 300 CE. A Poporo is a device used by indigenous cultures in present and pre-Columbian South America for storage of small amounts of lime produced from burnt and crushed sea-shells.
Map of pre-Columbian cultures Poporo Quimbaya in the Gold Museum, Bogotá Colombia Seated gold figure from the Museo de América (Museum of America). Quimbaya artifacts refer to a range of primarily ceramic and gold objects surviving from the Quimbaya civilisation, one of many pre-Columbian cultures of Colombia inhabiting the Middle Cauca River valley and southern Antioquian region of modern ...
An example of the interaction of the art of nature and the famous goldworking of the Muisca is the precious golden sea snail in the collection of the Museo del Oro in Bogotá The flat Bogotá savanna, the southern territory of the Muisca Confederation, not only provided fertile agricultural lands, but also many different clays for the production of ceramics, rock shelters where petroglyphs and ...