With their best clothes, ready for the ceremony... This is how El Museo del Oro de Bogota shows us some of the jewels of the Zenú culture, surely used by the dominant members of the community, to exercise their role in the usual ceremonies. A nose ring, pectoral, bracelets and jockstrap, but he could wear many more: a diadem, pendants, necklaces, earrings, rings, bells, needles ... it seems endless the amount of large and small pieces created by the jewelers of pre-Columbian cultures so that they could be worn according to the occasion.
On my third visit to the museum I was able to enjoy again the immense variety of designs worked in goldsmithing, many of them in tiny jewels in which it is difficult to appreciate the detail and one wonders why such a size. Well, why so many things?
The worship of the gods, the respect for certain animals, the importance of gold or tumbaga depending on the area was more or less rich in this precious metal; All this seems to be at the center of most cultures in Colombia but the elements that differentiate them are also many and too often have only been interpreted in a cursory manner.
I will be showing the designs that I love and surprise me, and that I want to share with those who, like me, appreciate the beauty of pre-Columbian art.
