Pre-Columbian Chavín culture copper alloy plaque with the dark burnished surface

with the dark burnished surface enhancing the dramatic relief decoration

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Cauca Valley

and retains notable traces of original polychrome decoration

Pre-Columbian Chavín culture copper alloy plaque with the dark burnished surfaceAuthentic Pre Columbian Chavn culture copper alloy plaque, Peru, ca. 900200 BCE. This rare ceremonial plaque is hammered from a copper based alloy and decorated in repouss with classic Chavn iconography, featuring stylized anthropomorphic and zoomorphic imagery characteristic of the Chavn religious tradition. The plaque retains its original suspended metal danglers, still attached through ancient perforations along the lower edgean exceptional