Ornamented Tweezer 100 B.C.-A.D. 400 Calima-Yotoco This tweezerlike ornament is embellished on the front and back with two superimposed grinning faces whose prominent sets of teeth seem skeletal, but whose fleshy noses do not. The faces end in swirls along the edges of the object. Sometimes called brazeletes in Spanish, such ornaments may have been worn suspended from a cord tied around the upper arm. Although seemingly a curious form of decoration to modern viewers, tweezerlike ornaments were a common symbol of power and authority throughout the western reaches of the ancient Americas. Along with ear ornaments, headdress diadems, and pectorals, these tweezerlike objects formed part of the regalia that Yotoco leaders wore in life before they accompanied them in death. Yotoco (100 B.C.-A.D. 800) was the second of three cultures identified archaeologically in the Cauca Valley of southwest Colombia. Along with the earlier Ilama, and the later Sonso, these three societies are known collect