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Description:

The collection of Pre-Hispanic metals of the MNAAHP includes more than 12 thousand pieces elaborated in different metals -gold, silver, cooper and different alloys- manufactured between the Early Horizon (900 BC - 200 BC) to the Late Horizon (1476 AD- 1534 AD). The catalogue presents in chronological order a selection of more than 100 pieces. Includes a section of the history of the museum collection and brief texts on the acquisition and the implementation of the conservation and restoration laboratory.

subjects: Catalogs,  Indians of South America,  Antiquities,  Indian metal-work,  History,  Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia del Perú

Places: Peru