Museum Pre-Colombian Raft Balsa Muisca Bogota Colombia Bronze Silver 24K Plated

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=====#R==== Museum Pre-Colombian Raft Balsa Muisca Bogota Colombia made of Bronze --Silver -- and 24K Plated. IN FITTED BOX WITH PAPER OF ORIGIN. SOME TARNISH FROM AGE. MOUNTED ON GREEN MARBLE BASE 5 3/4 INCH BY 3 3/8 INCH. BRASS MUSEUM PLATE ON FRONT READS:
REPLICA BALSA MUISCA MUSEO DEL ORO BOGOTA--COLUMBIA
The
Muisca raft
(
Balsa Muisca
in Spanish_language  sometimes referred to as the
El Dorado Raft
, is an artistic figure of pre-Columbian gold votive, drafted by the "Muisca people" who established one of the four grand civilizations in the Americas on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense in the
Eastern Ranges of the Colombia Andes. The piece is exhibited at the Gold Museum in Bogota. It is estimated that the original figure was drawn between 600 and 1600 AD by Lost-Wax casting pure
gold with a small amount of
copper.
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