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

..92~9 comes to Australia Gold Museum ng cover d in gold wt10 I,v d 111 a 1city 111 the n1ountaI11s · legend 0119I11<,t ·s at Lak e · ,vita. high 111 the And :in r11nges , 11 s,te of the sacred ceremon,es ot ,sea, one of the Indian trib •s ceremonial occasions 11, Mu1sca , was covered 111 r s111 th en gold 1 was blown all over 111111 10 torm d I gold He was t11 en rowed r " ii r, It centre of the lake wt11le 111 tribe ,, offering s of f1g ur111es nncl emer- I·110 the water : only replica that will lJe shown •lie eA h1b1l1t'n ,s of a small golden ' aturing in tricately designed figures 1t1ought to depict the El Dorado · Iony. The original never leaves the 11m. rnwyn Thomas says Australia ,s Iv 10 be the last country to host an 1·,1tlon from Colombia " They are ant to let wo rks out of the coun try :i se of t11eir value," slie explained. I Dorado w,11 give Australians a cIal opportunity to learn something 1tln America - nbout which we 're • mally ignorant " - CAROL VEITCH 1e El Dorado collection wlll be wn at Adelaide's Art Gallery from •uary 25-March 27: Western Austra– ,1Gallery. Perth . from April 8-May 7: 1onal Gallery of Victoria , Melbourne. , May 26-July 2: Queensland Art ry, Brisbane. from July 13-Aug ust New South Wales Art Gallery, ·iey, August 22-October 1. ancie nt nose ornament with double pendants is worked in hamme red gold . precious gotns. Pictures: Les Gorrio