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ID  962  -  Public access
Description :   Group of circular plaques. These plaques have different diameters and all of them have a light circular rim and four perforations each. These perforations have been made to allow it to be sewn to clothing. For this reason we call them shirt accessories. They were designed to give color and sparkle to garments.
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ID  963  -  Public access
Description :   Ear adornments. They have two bodies joined by a short tube. At the ends there is a circular surface embossed with geometric and biomorphic designs. In the centre of the circular part, pointed conical bodies project outwards.
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ID  964  -  Public access
Description :   Bell in the shape of a peccary head. Its mouth is semi-open and in it a small sphere (jinglet) of tumbaga can be seen.
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ID  965  -  Public access
Description :   Bell with handle or grip.
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ID  966  -  Public access
Description :   Pendants of a belt of teeth from various animals. In the photo they are accompanied by a sperm whale tooth figure with gold covers that was found next to them.
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ID  967  -  Public access
Description :   Group of small cylindrical beads. They were probably part of a necklace.
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ID  968  -  Public access
Description :   Miniature breastplate. No iconographic decoration. It was split in half and next to two cuffs one inside the other, a group of small beads and a pendant, all made of gold. All these pieces seem to have been part of a miniature artifact package deposited inside tomb T3. Tomb T3 has not been excavated at the date of registration of this file. This breastplate, and the group of artifacts that accompanied it, was found by chance while a series of repairs were being carried out in the excavation area at the beginning of the excavation campaign in 2011.
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ID  969  -  Public access
Description :   Hammered gold discoidal pectoral, embossed with the frontal representation of the face of a supernatural being with features of a mythical crocodile. It has two suspension holes on either side of the nose for fastening or hanging the object. The face has a wide, prominent nose with unmarked nostrils and round eyes. The fleshy mouth shows two rows of zigzagged teeth and below it hangs a wide, slightly bifurcated tongue. From the area between the eyes, the nose, and the base of the forehead, there are two ridges that are curled at the ends which delimit the head and form the oval of the face, m...
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ID  970  -  Public access
Description :   Hammered gold discoidal pectoral embossed with the mirror image of two supernatural hybrid beings of bird and reptile. It has two holes for suspension at the height of the eyes of the figures. Conte Style Although the piece is very deteriorated it is possible to observe two quadrupeds in profile each with a bird´s head, from which a long crest emerges backwards following the line of the body; almond eyes; a long and wide beak; two short legs attached to the body with claws; and a long serrated tail that curves towards the central axis of the design. The crest is decorated with a curved pat...
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ID  971  -  Public access
Description :   Miniature gold cuff. No design. It was found along with another cuff, a breastplate, a pendant and a group of small gold beads in the filling of tomb T3. The two cuffs were found inside each other and therefore without anatomical joints.
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