*Pince à épiler cérémonielle
decorated on each side with two grimacing heads evoking the shaman lord under hallucinogen.
Calima, Malagana period, Calima region, Colombia, 200 BC to 200 AD
Cut, hammered and embossed gold.
17 x 9 cm - thickness from 0.27 to 0.62 mm ; 94 grams
Bibliography: Gold Museum, Banco de la Republica edition, Bogotá, 2008, page 168 (inv.033393), for a similar work kept in the museum.
Studied in July 1997 by the Conservation and Technical Services Limited, Birkbeck College, University of London
