River of Gold: Pre-Columbian Treasures from Sitio Conte
Event Details
Time: November 20, 2009 at 11am to November 21, 2009 at 4pm
Location: Dennos Museum Center
Street: 1701 E. Front St.
City/Town: Traverse City
Website or Map: http://www.dennosmuseum.org
Contact Info: 231-995-1055
Event Type: Art
Organized By: Dennos Museum Center
Latest Activity: 1 day ago
Event Description
This exhibit presents more than 120 exquisitely crafted pieces of Pre-Columbian gold work from the University of Pennsylvania Museum's 1940 excavations at the ancient cemetery site of Sitio Conte, in what is now central Panama.
The exhibition includes large embossed plaques, cast pendants and nose ornaments, gold-sheathed ear rods and necklaces of intricate beads, as well as polychrome ceramics and objects made of precious and semi-precious stones, whale-tooth ivory and bone.
River of Gold is not only visually stunning. It also gives viewers an invaluable glimpse into a Panamanian society as it was 1,000 years ago.
This exhibition was organized by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
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