The Art of Precolumbian Gold: The Jan Mitchell Collection

Jones, Julie, ed.

1985

248 pages

80 illustrations

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Table of contents

About the authors

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword
Philippe de Montebello

Introduction
Julie Jones

The Old World and the Gold of the New
Priscilla E. Muller

Symbolism of Gold in Costa Rica and its Archaeological Perspective
Michael J. Snarskis

The Goldwork of Panama: An Iconographic and Chronological Perspective
Richard G. Cooke and Warwick Bray

Cultural Patterns in the Pre-Hispanic Goldwork of Colombia
Clemencia Plazas and Ana Maria Falchetti

Behind the Golden Mask: The Sican Gold Artifacts from Batan Grande, Peru
Paloma Carcedo Muro and Izumi Shimada

Ancient American Metallurgy: Five Hundred Years of Study
Warwick Bray

The Catalogue
Julie Jones and Heidi King

Bibliography

Met Art in Publication

Frog Pendant, Gold, tooth inlay, Coclé (Parita) — Frog Pendant
12th–14th century

Double Bat-Head Figure Pendant, Gold, Chiriqui — Double Bat-Head Figure Pendant
11th–16th century

Funerary mask, Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s), Gold, silver-copper alloy, cinnabar paint, Lambayeque (Sicán) — Funerary mask
Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s)
900–1100 CE

Funerary Mask
, Gold, Calima (Ilama) — Funerary Mask
5th–1st century BCE

Figure Whistle, Gold, Moche — Figure Whistle
3rd–7th century

Double-End Animal Pendant, Gold, Conte (?) — Double-End Animal Pendant
5th–8th century

Serpent (Tunjo), Gold, Muisca — Serpent (Tunjo)
10th–16th century

Frog Pendant, Gold, Chiriquí — Frog Pendant
11th–16th century

Pectoral, Gold, Sonso — Pectoral
13th–16th century

Pectoral, Chavín artist(s), Gold, Chavín — Pectoral
Chavín artist(s)
800–500 BCE

Headdress Ornament, Gold, Calima (Yotoco) — Headdress Ornament
1st–7th century

Earflare with ritual procession, Chimú artist(s), Gold, Chimú — Earflare with ritual procession
Chimú artist(s)
1350–1470 CE

Masked Figure Pendant, Gold, Tairona — Masked Figure Pendant
10th–16th century

Standing Figure, Gold, Tolita-Tumaco — Standing Figure
100 BCE–100 CE

Lime Container (Poporo), Gold, Quimbaya — Lime Container (Poporo)
1st–7th century

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Mitchell, Jan, and Julie Jones. 1985. The Art of Precolumbian Gold: The Jan Mitchell Collection. 1st U.S. ed. New York Graphic Society Book. Boston: Little, Brown and Co.

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