Golden Kingdoms

My blog is about CHALLENGES. 

If we are to come to a clearer understanding of our own knowledge about issues of peace, seeing through the eyes and voices of others, varying points of view, human rights, children's rights, global pluralism, we need to understand that every place on earth is a unique one.

Golden Kingdoms is a landmark exhibition of luxury arts of the Incas, the Aztecs, and their predecessors tracing the emergence and florescence of goldworking in the ancient Americas, from its earliest appearance in the Andes to its later developments farther north in Central America and Mexico. In the ancient Americas, metalworking developed in the context of ritual and regalia, rather than for tools, weapons, or currency.

Headdress Ornamentca. AD 400Moche, PeruGilded copperMuseo Cao, Magdalena de Cao, Peru, PACEB-F4-00065. Ministerio de Cultura del Perú. Photo: Fundación Augusto N. Wiese 

This two-pronged frontlet would have been attached to a headdress. Along with three others, this headdress is among the most important symbols of power from the funerary bundle of the Señora de Cao, or the Lady of Cao. 

Esta placa con dos extensiones probablemente estaba fijada a un tocado. Junto con tres otros, este tocado es uno de los símbolos de poder más importantes del conjunto funerario de la Señora de Cao.

Video: Señora de Cao