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Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Metalwork (36)

UNIQUE GOLD SHAMAN PENDANT, PANAMA Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Metalwork: Pre 1492 item# 83193 (stock# H4154)
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Weighing over 55 grams and measuring 3 ¼” in height, this wonderfully crafted anthropomorphic 20-22K gold image (H4154) is said to represent a shaman. Attributed to the Veraguas horizon in Panama, c.500-1200AD, it is one of three different available images that can be put in a row to depict the transformation sequence of shaman to his animal form, in this case a caiman, the South American crocodile. With a bale attached to the recessed back, this powerful piece can be worn. You’ll seldom find or ...click for details

PRECOLUMBIAN GOLD SHAMAN-CROCODILE PENDANT Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Metalwork: Pre 1492 item# 83320 (stock# 100.80HD)
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This phenomenal depiction of the shaman undergoing empowerment is almost pure gold! Worn in Precolumbian Panama by a member of the Veraguas group, the 3 7/8” long pendant (100.80HD) was authenticated and tested as 23K gold by the Orenda laboratory in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It’s difficult to find the right words to describe an item of such beauty and power, but a similar, only slightly larger piece sold at Sotheby’s years ago for almost $80,000! This extraordinary example of the ancient gold worke ...click for details

TWO PRE-COLUMBIAN GOLD BAT GOD PENDANTS Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Metalwork: Pre 1492 item# 83388 (stock# TFX117)
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Not exactly the same, but probably once hanging from the same necklace, this closely matched pair of 2 3/8” tall figural pendants (TFX117) are attributed to the Veraguas horizon of Panama, dating c.500-1200AD. The figures, representing shamans wearing bat god masks, each hold a large tumi shaped blade in one hand, and what appears to be a sling in the other. Lost wax cast in the high copper, low gold alloy known as tumbaga, the figures were subsequently surface enriched through the depletion gil ...click for details

TWELVE PRE-COLUMBIAN GOLD PENDANTS AND BEADS Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Metalwork: Pre 1492 item# 464261 (stock# PC.GOLD.D)
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You won’t find a genuine Pre-Columbian gold item any cheaper than the ones we offer from the Muisca horizon of Colombiaon this page! This group of twelve (102.58ADH and 104.3A-K HD) has 11 of the Muisca decorated sheet gold pendants and one lot of 20 fragile sheet gold beads from the Veraguas horizon of Panama. None of the items in this group of twelve can be safely worn today without the risk of damage, so all should be considered simply as decorative, interesting, and inexpensive additions tha ...click for details

MATCHED PAIR OF GOLD EARRINGS, SINU Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Metalwork: Pre 1492 item# 154457 (stock# 103.42HD)
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Unmistakably of the Sinu style, this matched pair of heavy gold earrings (103.42HD) is from the Gulf of Uruba area of Colombia and dates c.400-1600AD. Just over 2 ¾” in width and made in Precolumbian times using the cire perdue technique (lost wax casting), the earrings are in overall very good condition (one of them has been slightly bent at a corner and a few of the gold rings are cracked, but without any significant weakening of the piece). This spectacular set could be adapted for contempora ...click for details

NECKLACE OF PRE-COLUMBIAN GOLD BEADS AND PENDANTS Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Metalwork: Pre 1492 item# 744347 (stock# PBF.202)
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Assembled from beads and pendants found in the Calima cultural area in the middle Cauca valley of western Colombia and dating c.500BC-1200AD, this wearable necklace (PBF202) incorporates the following elements: 34 one-half inch long hammered and rolled 14K sheet gold tube beads; 46 disk-shaped brick red ceramic separator beads; two one-inch long 14K gold avian pendants produced by ancient goldsmiths using the lost wax casting technique; and a tiny but superb 11mm long, pop-eyed 20-22K seated gol ...click for details

PRECOLUMBIAN GOLD SPREAD EAGLE PENDANT Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Metalwork: Pre 1492 item# 83370 (stock# TF97.148)
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This 2 5/8” tall, simply decorated, spread eagle pendant (TF97.148) is from the Veraguas horizon of Panama dating c.500-1200AD. Identified as a harpy eagle, and usually associated with shamanic transformation, this striking wearable pendant was lost wax cast with gold that tests out at about 14K. In overall very good condition, one of the wings has some incipient cracking caused by light bending of the crystallized gold. There does not appear to be any danger of breakage unless a heavy weight or ...click for details

TWELVE COPPER ARTIFACTS: HEFLIN, CARD GROUP C Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Metalwork: Pre 1492 item# 581541 (stock# AXH.CARD C)
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Aside for the overall quality and frequent uniqueness of the artifacts and relics from the Dr. Allen Heflin collection, it’s difficult not to to rank its next most important feature as the extreme care practiced by Heflin in documenting the provenance of almost every one of his approximately 10,000 treasured items. Not all of them were large, or impressive, or complete, or of museum quality, and many were simply the fragments and parts from ritually broken offerings to ancient gods, or pieces re ...click for details

TWELVE OLD WORLD ANTIQUITIES: GROUP B Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Metalwork: Pre 1492 item# 769697 (stock# ANTIQ.B)
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Each of the twelve artifacts from Old World cultures in this group (100.43M & 57BSHD; 95.35 & 51HD; 96.68 & 998Ihd; 97.291HD; AXH230, 1901, 1907, & 1919; and ROW2) is individually priced as shown on its descriptive photo. The types include Egyptian scarabs, Roman bronze and bone pins, carnelian and agate intaglio seals, stone, ancient dice, and ceramic. Afghanistan, Syria, Italy, Ostia were most of the countries and sites represented in the group, and Sassanians, Mesopotamians, ...click for details

SILVERED COPPER FIGURAL PENDANT, CHIMU Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Metalwork: Pre 1492 item# 549113 (stock# 102.53HD)
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There is surprising detail on this 7/8” tall figural pendant (102.53HD) that was cast in copper and surfaced in Pre-Columbian days with a light silver coating. Attributed to the Chimu horizon of Peru, dating c.1000-1400AD, the amuletic character (a dancer or healer?), wearing a breechcloth, stands with legs slightly bent, and his remaining single arm flexed at the elbow with hand extended to the front (the left forearm is missing). A small ring at the top of his head appears to have been used fo ...click for details

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