Bird Pendant 300 B.C.-A.D.700 Early Quimbaya Technical note: Optical microscopy and XRF conducted in 2017. This pendant in the shape of a bird was primarily produced through lost wax casting. Made of an alloy of gold, it depicts a stylized bird with identifying features of a head, neck, body, and tail. The lower areas of the bird, its abdomen and limbs, are not shown. Depicting the bird in this way suggests that it is "posada en agua" ("at rest in water"), as Pérez de Barradas (1966, 106) inferred for a similar avian pendant. All of the design features of this pendant were originally made in the wax except for the two crescent-shaped danglers, which were made separately from hammered sheet and added after casting. The underside of the bird reveals that the object was open-back-cast (see image 2). A ceramic-charcoal core that gave the object its basic shape was enclosed in wax, but one side (the underside) was left exposed. When the ceramic investment was built around the wax model, i

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Bird Pendant 300 B.C.-A.D.700 Early Quimbaya Technical note: Optical microscopy and XRF conducted in 2017. This pendant in the shape of a bird was primarily produced through lost wax casting. Made of an alloy of gold, it depicts a stylized bird with identifying features of a head, neck, body, and tail. The lower areas of the bird, its abdomen and limbs, are not shown. Depicting the bird in this way suggests that it is "posada en agua" ("at rest in water"), as Pérez de Barradas (1966, 106) inferred for a similar avian pendant. All of the design features of this pendant were originally made in the wax except for the two crescent-shaped danglers, which were made separately from hammered sheet and added after casting. The underside of the bird reveals that the object was open-back-cast (see image 2). A ceramic-charcoal core that gave the object its basic shape was enclosed in wax, but one side (the underside) was left exposed. When the ceramic investment was built around the wax model, i

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