Vicus Gold Tweezers

A Pre-Columbian Vicus gold nose ornament and tweezers made of a folded oblong sheet of gold with soldered filigree spirals.

Peru, Vicus, north coast,

Ca. 300 BC - 300 AD.

Width: 6 in. (15.1 cm).Weight: 36.5 gm.

Tweezers were Pre-Columbian Andean status implements fabricated in copper, silver and gold, with gold reserved for the highest level of status.

Formerly in a French private collection.

Inv#: 8365

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