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FIGURINE HOLDING OFFERINGS Two CAST-GOLD OFFERINGS

Muisca Muisca
earthenware 557: CUP
3
3
37.5 x 26.5 (i4 /4 x io /s)
°-9 3 ( / ll//8 )
3 8 x
x
Museo del Oro, Banco de la Republica, Bogota
558: SCEPTER
3
The ceramic figure, broad and generous like 7.9 X O.p (jVs X /8)
Mother Earth, probably comes from a secret Museo del Oro, Banco de la Republica, Bogota
offering place. These were holes in the ground
that were thought of as entry points for fertilizing These tiny gold votive offerings are similar to the
the earth with gold offerings, as were lagoons cup and scepter held by the earthenware figure
and caves. C.P. (cat. 556). C.P.
642 CIRCA 1492