Nose Ornament A.D. 1-1000 Zenú Goldwork from Colombia varies in style, technology, and imagery. Nose ornaments especially were made in many shapes and styles over millennia. Depictions of human figures in ceramic and metal show such nose ornaments being worn. Long, heavy ornaments with wide ends, such as these examples, are seen placed in the septum of the nose.1 The ornaments from the Zenú region in northwestern Colombia are often fabricated through delicate cast filigree of braided and spiral elements, as on the present example.According to sixteenth-century records after the Spanish conquest, Zenú gold objects came from a region called Gran Zenú. Located in the tropical lowlands of the Caribbean coast, Gran Zenú was composed of three provinces—Zenufana, Finzenú, and Panzenú—and stretched east from the Sinú River to the Nechí and Magdalena river areas. Recent archival research relates the gold works from this region to the Zenú, a people living in this area at the time of the Spani