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Gold ornaments from graves of the Incas of Peru - side view of unique golden "celt" or wedge, 1883. Creator: Unknown.

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Gold ornaments from graves of the Incas of Peru - side view of unique golden "celt" or wedge, 1883. Item from '...a very interesting and unique collection of gold ornaments from the "Huacas" or graves of the Incas of Peru. They were obtained by Senor Don Leocadio Maria Arango, of Medellin, during a residence of thirty years in that country, but have now passed into the collection of Lady Brassey...Gold, in the figurative language of the people, was the substance of "the tears wept by the Sun."...Fig. 21. side view of the rarest object in the collection, which is, without doubt, unique. It is a celt or wedge, of the neolithic type, in pure gold; the edge of which has evidently been hardened by hammering. It is the precise type of the ordinary Scandinavian celt, and is the only known existing specimen of the true type in the precious metal'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM25A50_126

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

1,3Mo (80,2Ko) / 13,7cm x 2,4cm / 1615 x 285 (300dpi)

Mots clés

South America unusual arts country metal art continent British tools tool unique death tomb gold mausoleum South American location century burial Britain newspapers press Peru Peruvian print artefacts artefact concept INCA artifacts artifact B&W engraved engraving 19th century black & white black and white B W Celt Incan nineteenth century Pre-Columbian The Print Collector burial goods grave goods Illustrated London News preColombian Pre-Colombian preColumbian wood engraving ILN newspaper Unknown Brassey Lady Anna Annie 19th-century The Illustrated London News Anna Brassey Anna Allnutt Allnutt Lady Brassey Baroness Brassey Annie Brassey Leocadio Mar?a Arango Uribe Uribe Leocadio Mar?a Arango Leocadio Maria Arango Uribe Leocadio Maria Arango