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With their features schematically represented using fine wire, the “tunjos”, or Muisca votive figures, constitute a rich visual catalogue of social types. Here a mother holds her son on her left arm and a kind of staff in her right hand.  
 
   
 
Votive Figure
Gold
A.D. 600 - A.D. 1600
8,4 x 2,5 cm
   
 

  

 

 
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