Queensland Art Gallery Presscuttings Book 8 : Pressclippings, 1977-1981

wbicll adores. El Dor• Exbibi• del Oro reop I be on nd An s been through tralian ration, Govern• ship of Hedges c price• cs, or– rtifactJ II trea• ughout is or– led to of the ·ultural ry. ensure -,--- ... that the objt,cta are not mellOd clown ror their gold content or spirited out or the country, the Gold MUJCum is willlq to buy the treasures with fe'!Y qucstionl •• keel. To the ancient Indian tribes or South America gold wu an almost aacrcd metal - the metal of the Sun - •and from it was fashioned votive offerings to the ioos and funerary decorat1on1 , buried in the tombs of the great. And the Spani1h were not misled in their belief of an El Dorado, because there was indeed such a Golden Man in the history of the Colombian Indiana. Among one of the Chibcha tribes - the Muisca - in Central Colombia, when a new chief was invested, he was fint covered in resin and gold dust was blown all over his body. He was then taken on a INUED PAGE 24 left: Cuzco: Th• famoua "•tone of the twelve angln" In • wall of tha lata Inca period. Whate:':J ptn– "H•d the dHlgner ol auch an element, the work waa achieved with a great deal of refinement . Righi : Chanchan· Interior walls, with lh~ typical trellis - type otructu_re and mould– ed rehefa. " The ac – comphahment I Chanchan was prob~– bly the highest organi– aahonal stage reached ~J the population• ol e c_oast, for this waa the linal phase of the process of association among the varioue political unite centred in the individual valleys." AboYe: The aacred Lake QuetaYlta, 70 km from llogola, .._. Ille of El Dorado originated. It la bellend tllat the prlcelNa lrNeurft CMI the lake during the king'• lnfflfflure ceremonJ .. 11111 then. Left: A dramatic work In ca1t gold, bJ an ancient Colombian golnmt would have bNn worn a1 a pendant bJ • chief or perNn of high ra end WH burled with him on hla dNth. Sunday Mall Co/or, March 12, 19,