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ID  1090  -  Public access
Description :   Breastplate made of a hammered gold and copper alloy in the form of a stylised butterfly in flight with an embossed central body. In the upper part of the plate there is one of the two or more holes for hanging or sewing that would have almost certainly been used to allow the piece to be worn. Conte Metallurgical Group The sheet, which is of a semicircular shape, has a slightly fusiform figure embossed on its central axis with a thickening of the upper middle part, which gives the pectoral a certain resemblance to a very stylized butterfly in flight. Its four wings would have been cast in ...
Individual´s funerary attire:  I07
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ID  1092  -  Public access
Description :   Hammered gold cuff. On its central part, next to the edge, it has an embossed image (3.8cm) of a supernatural being in the form of an anthropomorphic bat. The cuff has two pairs of opposing perforations at its upper and lower ends to allow it to be tied. Conte Metallurgical Group. The figure walks to its right but turns its torso, from whose back emerge two triangular wings, and its head towards the front. The arms are open and in each hand a cane is grasped. The head, with a flattened skull, has a trapezoidal face with a straight forehead, large round eyes within deep sockets, a wide nos...
Individual´s funerary attire:  I07
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ID  1093  -  Public access
Description :   Hammered gold cuff. On its central part, next to the edge, it has an embossed image (3.8cm) of a supernatural being in the form of an anthropomorphic bat. The cuff has two pairs of opposing perforations at its upper and lower ends to allow it to be tied. Conte Metallurgical Group. The figure walks to its left but turns its torso, from whose back emerge two triangular wings, and its head towards the front. The arms are open and in each hand a cane is grasped. The head, with a flattened skull, has a trapezoidal face with a straight forehead, large bulging round eyes, a narrow nose, pointed ...
Individual´s funerary attire:  I07
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ID  1094  -  Public access
Description :   Belt of spherical beads (58). Of these beads only the gold sheaths with which they were covered have been conserved. It is probable that the beads were made of wood.
Individual´s funerary attire:  I07
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ID  1096  -  Public access
Description :   Tubular gold ear rod.
Individual´s funerary attire:  I07
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ID  1097  -  Public access
Description :   Tubular gold ear rod. This ear rod is the counterpart of ear rod AU12018.
Individual´s funerary attire:  I07
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ID  1098  -  Public access
Description :   Gold breastplate in the shape of a stylized butterfly in flight. It has four perforations, to allow it to be hung or sewn to clothing, in the upper part of the plate. Conte Metallurgical Group From an embossed central axis consisting of two strips joined together and separated in the centre, leaving a fusiform space, the shape of the plate suggests a pair of concave semicircular wings, which gives the piece a certain resemblance to a very stylised butterfly in flight. Its four wings would have been cast in twos. The head, thorax and abdomen are condensed into a fusiform element surrounded...
Individual´s funerary attire:  I07
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ID  1099  -  Public access
Description :   Set of gold ear rods (2 pairs). They were found together on one side of individual I7’s body. They were probably inside a package placed there. Two of the ear rods were made of wood, with sheaths and caps made of gold (in the photo, the two upper ear rods). The other two are made of stone, with sheaths and caps made of gold (the two ear rods at the bottom of the photograph). Typologically, the two pairs of ear rods are similar, although they are made with different materials.
Individual´s funerary attire:  I07
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ID  1102  -  Public access
Description :   Pendant in the shape of a chisel or inverted “T”. It features a completely polished surface and a suspension hole.
Individual´s funerary attire:  I07
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ID  1498  -  Public access
Description :   Perforated premolars of human, dog, and collared peccary origin.
Individual´s funerary attire:  I07
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