|
|
|
|
South America -
Peru
Nazca & Ica
Gold & Metals Exhibit
1 - 700 CE (AD) |
 |
|
Nazca Gold
Ornamental
pre-columbian gold designs designs or motifs |
 |
Nasca
Pair of supernatural birds (Hummingbords?), A.D. 150300
Hammered gold
H. 9 3/4" (24.7 cm); W. 10 1/2" (26.7 cm)
Dumbarton Oaks Collection
click photos
 to
enlarge |
|
 |
Nasca circular gold laminate
breastplate Peabody Museum |
|
|
 |
Nasca circular gold laminate
breastplate
National Museum Of Peru |
 |
Hammered and Embossed God Laminate Headdress, c.100 B.C. – 300 A.D.
Possibly Nazca culture; South Coast, Peru
Gold; 12 ¾ in. x 19 in.Bowers Museum |
 |
Nasca gold laminate
head-piece |
 |
hammered gold alloy laminate Mask
Peru, South Coast, Nasca style
100 BC-700 AD Overall: 18.4cm x 21.8cm
Cleveland Museum of Art |
|
click photos
to
enlarge |
|
hammered gold alloy Nazca Beard-Mouth Mask
(imitating who?)
Peru, South Coast, Nasca style (100 BC-AD 700) Overall: 14cm x 19.4cm
Cleveland Museum of Art |
 |
Gold Spatula (or possibly a gold celt) with Carved
Lizard
Peru, Nasca style (100 BC-AD 700) Overall: 11.8cm x 2.6cm
Cleveland Museum of Art |
 |
Two
Gold bird ornaments, 1st–2nd century - Peru; Nazca
Gold; H. 4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm)
The
Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection |
 |
Gold-tipped Spear-Thrower
Peru, South Coast, Nasca (?), 2nd-8th Century - wood, metal, bone, thread,
sinew Overall: 52.8cmCleveland
Museum of Art |
 |
Bird motif ornament or Tupu needle
Museo Larco |
 |
Gold Nazca adornment
Museo Larco
|
click photos
to
enlarge |
|
 |
Nazca man gold adornment
Museo Larco
|
 |
Gold Serpent Head mask "El fantasma de Nazca" |
Paracas / Ica Gold
Ornamental
pre-columbian gold designs designs or motifs |
|
click photos
to
enlarge |
|
hammered and embossed gold-copper alloy Gold
Laminate Headdress Ornament
Peru, South Coast, Paracas, 3rd-2nd Century BC
c. 300 BC-AD 200 Overall: 6.8cm x 26.9cm
Cleveland Museum of Art |
 |
hammered and embossed gold-copper alloy Plaque:
Figurine
Peru, South Coast, Paracas
c. 300 BC-AD 200 Overall: 6.8cm x 4.2cm
Cleveland Museum of Art |
 |
hammered gold alloy (heavy copper content) Forehead
Ornament
Peru, South Coast, Paracas style (100 BC-AD 700) Overall: 27.4cm x 9.3cm
Cleveland Museum of Art |
 |
Paracas Nose Piece |
 |
Indefinable Ornament, gold Paracas South
America; Peru Peabody Museum,
Harvard |
 |
Pendant or Pectoral Ornament, gold Paracas
South America; Peru Peabody Museum,
Harvard
|
|
|
|
|
|
Chincha / Ica Gold
Ornamental
pre-columbian gold designs designs or motifs |
 |
Funerary Female Figure
Peru, South Coast, Chicha-Ica Valley area, 15th-16th century hammered
silvered copper, cinnabar Overall: 24.6cm x 8.4cm
Cleveland Museum of Art |
 |
Pair of ear ornaments with inlays,
13th–15th century; Chincha/Ica (?)
South Coast
Silver, stone, shell; Diam. 2 1/4 in. (5.8 cm)
|
click photos
to
enlarge |
|
|
Return to Peru » |
|
|
