Traditional Moche finery included large circular earflares worn in the distended earlobes of royal men and women. The shafts, often of substantial size, balanced the weights of the decorated frontals. Moche metalsmiths were among the most inventive and skilled in ancient Peru, developing sophisticated techniques for joining the three basic metals they worked: gold, copper, and silver. Gold and silver were used as a foreground or a background on ornaments. On these technically complex earflares, the front plates are made of sheet gold to which repoussé silver condors are tabbed. The back plates and shafts, of gilded copper, are also joined in this manner.