*Collier
decorated with seventeen stylized hornbill heads, their powerful beaks closed. Each of them is separated by tubular rock crystal beads
Rolled, cut and assembled gold, rock crystal.
Calima, Yotoco period, Colombia, 100 BC to 700 AD
Accident on a head, some small micro cracks, slightly crumpled in places
Height of the heads : 4,2 to 4,6 cm
Bibliography: Calima, Payot Editions, Lausanne 1991, p. 121 (MO14495), for a very similar necklace
Studied in July 1997 by the Conservation and Technical Services Limited, Birkbeck College, University of London
