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Two “South American” Metal Techniques Found Recently in Western Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Dudley T. Easby Jr.
Dudley T. Easby Jr.*
Affiliation:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N. Y.
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Abstract

A recent find at Uruapan, Michoacán, disclosed two metalworking techniques commonly associated with South America but not with Mexico or the intervening area: hammering or pressing a series of identical sheet-gold ornaments over a pattern or model carved in high relief and making decorative spirals of worked (as opposed to cast) gold wire. The objects and the probable methods of manufacture are considered.

Type
Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , July 1962 , pp. 19 - 24
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1962

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