3-074-495 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Gold ornaments from the graves of the Incas of Peru, (Lady Brassey's Collection), 1883. '1. Gold fish-hook; 2. Coil of gold worn as a belt or head-band; 3. Altar-shrine of gold, with figures of condors, and gods with head-gear representing the sun; 4. Breastplate in the form of the sun; 5. Ornament for the nose (of finished workmanship); 6. Ornament worn by Chiriqui Indians; 7. Ear-ring; 8. Yunca idol, from Canete; 9. Flying-fish; 10. Chiriqui Indian ornament; 11. Frog; 12. and 13. Lizards; 14. Buckle (of true Inca type); 15. Shell of helix; 16. Finely worked nose-ornament; 17. Whistle; 18. Ear-ring; 19. Finely worked nose-ornament; 20. Inca hairpin; 21. and 22. Side and front views of golden "celt", or wedge, hardened by hammering...a very interesting and unique collection of gold ornaments from the "Huacas" or graves of the Incas of Peru. They were obtained by Senor Don Leocadio Maria Arango, of Medellin, during a residence of thirty years in that country, but have now passed into the collection of Lady Brassey...We are indebted to Mr. Bryce Wright, of Regent-street, mineralogist and lapidary, who has arranged the collection, for our illustrations of the articles here noticed, and for the above description of them'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.