Artifact · Disputed · Ica
Quimbaya artifacts (Tolima/Quimbaya fliers) (= AA Peruvian/Colombian gold jets)
The British Museum's gold 'plane' is 4 cm high. Its 1949 register calls it a gold fish, with detailed fins.
c. AD 500-1000
Some of these figures seem to have an upright tail fin. What were the goldsmiths actually looking at?
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