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Muisca art tended to include components that referred back to the raw material used in their own construction; for example, a statue who is depicted to be holding, in pouches, the substance from which it is made. [10] Birds are a common motif in Colombian gold work. [1] Muisca goldworking influenced a wide region.
The Muisca raft is the masterpiece of the Muisca goldworking and has become illustrative for the fine techniques used. The 19.1 centimetres (7.5 in) by 10 centimetres (3.9 in) object was found in 1969 in a ceramic pot hidden in a cave in the municipality of Pasca , in the southwest of the Bogotá savanna and has become the centerpiece in the ...
Dallas Museum of Art: Dallas, Texas: United States 2 tunjos [10] National Museum of the American Indian: Washington D.C. United States 2 tunjo & ceramic head [11] [12] Yale University Art Gallery: New Haven, Connecticut: United States 1 pendant [13] Princeton University Art Museum: Princeton, New Jersey: United States 1 tunjo [14] Denver Art ...
The museum houses the famous Muisca golden raft found in Pasca in 1969, that represents the ceremony of the new zipa (ruler) of Muyquytá, the basis for the El Dorado myth. The heir to the chieftaincy assumed power with a great offering to the gods.
Miguel Triana, in his work La Civilización Chibcha [21] suggested that the rock art symbols were writing. Wenceslao Cabrera Ortíz was the one who concluded that the Muisca were migrants to the highlands; in 1969 he published on this [22] and reported about excavations at the El Abra archaeological site. Those publications opened a new era in ...
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The Muisca raft pictures the initiation ritual of the new zipa, that took place in Lake Guatavita. When the Spanish who resided in the coastal city of Santa Marta , founded by Rodrigo de Bastidas in 1525, were informed about this legend , a large expedition in the quest for this El Dorado (city or man of gold) was organised in the spring of 1536.