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Every purchase supports the British Museum The accompanying title to the British Museum exhibition, Beyond El Dorado: power and gold in ancient Colombia, 17 October 2013 – 23 March 2014 For the people of Colombia, the value of gold lay in the symbolic and transformative properties associated with its colour, aura and malleability It was used to fashion some of the most visually dramatic and technically sophisticated works of art found anywhere in the Americas before European contact Drawing on the spectacular collections of the Museo del Oro in Bogota and the British Museum, this beautiful book features over 150 masterpieces fashioned exquisitely in gold, including tiny votive figures, decorative nose rings, vessels, pectorals and masks
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