Title: The Art of Precolumbian gold :
Authors: Jones, Julie; Mitchell, Jan.; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Date: 1985
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Physical description: 248 pages : illustrations (80 color) ; 28 cm
Language: English
LC classification: F
Contents: Introduction / Julie Jones -- The Old World and the gold from the New / Priscilla E. Muller -- Symbolism of gold in Costa Rica and its archaeological perspective / Michael J. Snarskis -- The goldwork of Panama : an iconographic and chronological perspective / Richard G. Cooke and Warwick Bray -- Cultural patterns in the prehispanic goldwork of Colombia / Clemencia Plazas and Ana María Falchetti -- Behind the golden mask : The Sicán gold artifacts from Batán Grande, Peru / Paloma Carcedo Muro and Izumi Shimada -- Ancient American metallurgy : five hundred years of study / Warwick Bray -- The catalogue / Julie Jones and Heidi King -- Bibliography.
Notes: "Published in conjunction with the exhibition ... shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 9 to August 11, 1985"--T.p. verso. "A New York Graphic Society book."
Subject headings (LCSH): Indian goldwork--Central America--Exhibitions.; Indian goldwork--Colombia--Exhibitions.; Indian goldwork--Exhibitions.; Indians of Central America--Goldwork--Exhibitions.; Indians of South America--Colombia--Goldwork--Exhibitions.; Mitchell, Jan--Art collections--Exhibitions.