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FOUR PECTORALS AND 531: CRESCENT PECTORAL WITH ANIMAL MOTIFS These items were found in a burial mound exca-
NOSE ORNAMENT 53.5 X 32 (21 X 12 /sj vated in 1919 in the region of Ayapel, Colombia,
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Sinu 532: ROUND PECTORAL WITH Two ALLIGATORS where the capital town of one of the most power-
hammered gold diameter 27.8 fio'/sj ful Sinu chiefs at the time of European contact
was located. The Ayapel tumulus yielded one of
529: NOSE ORNAMENT Colombia's richest archaeological treasures, all in
8.89 x 15.88 (^/2x6V 4) 533: ROUND PECTORAL WITH FOUR ALLIGATORS gold: three crescent-shaped breastplates, five cir-
diameter 33 (13)
530: CRESCENT PECTORAL WITH cular breastplates, six staff heads surmounted by
GEOMETRIC MOTIFS University Museum of Archaeology and birds or animals, four pairs of ear ornaments,
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54.9 X 32.2 (2I /8 X 12 /8J Anthropology, Philadelphia twenty-six nose pieces, nine necklaces, a girdle
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