Pectoral Ornament

700-1520 Diam: 2 11/16 in. (6.8 cm) Citation Source image

When Christopher Columbus arrived in present-day Panama and Costa Rica, he was greeted by warriors and men of high status wearing hammered gold discs, which were stitched to armbands or worn as pendants on the chest (pectorals).These gold disks demonstrate one of the forms tha...

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