The art of Precolumbian gold
Subtitle: the Jan Mitchell Collection
By: curator of the exhibition Julie Jones ; color photography, Justin Kerr
Contributors: Jones, Julie; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 1985
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Indian goldwork; Exhibitions
Notes: "This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition "The Art of Precolumbian Gold, the Jan Mitchell Collection" shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 9 to August 11, 1985"--Verso of t.p.

Includes bibliographcal references (p. 243-248).

LC copy has provenance: Gift of Jay I. Kislak Foundation; originally collected by Elizabeth and Dudley Easby.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Julie Jones; title: The Old World and the gold from the New / Priscilla E. Muller; title: Symbolism of gold in Costa Rica and its archaeological perspective / Michael J. Snarskis; title: The goldwork of Panama : an iconographic and chronological perspective / Richard G. Cooke and Warwick Bray; title: Cultural patterns in the prehispanic goldwork of Colombia / Clemencia Plazas and Ana María Falchetti; title: Behind the golden mask : The Sicán gold artifacts from Batán Grande, Peru / Paloma Carcedo Muro and Izumi Shimada; title: Ancient American metallurgy : five hundred years of study / Warwick Bray; title: The catalogue / Julie Jones and Heidi King; title: Bibliography.