Dumbarton Oaks Studies in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology
Seven Matched Hollow Gold Jaguars from Peru’s Early Horizon
Heather Lechtman,
Lee A. Parsons,
William J. Young
This is a technological study of seven hollow gold jaguars manufactured in the same workshop by one goldsmith or by a group of supervised craftsmen, and includes a discussion of the joining techniques used in assembling the twelve individual pieces that make up each jaguar.