*Couronne
with five stylized birds, their wings gracefully spread and their tapered beaks probably evoking a hummingbird.
Gold assembled, cut, hammered and stapled.
Colombia, coastal regions, 100 to 1300 A.D.
50.8 cm; 97 grams
Studied in July 1997 by Conservation and Technical Services Limited, Birkbeck College, University of London