Joanne Pillsbury is the Andrall E. Pearson Curator in the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Timothy Potts is director of the J. Paul Getty Museum. Kim N. Richter is senior research specialist in the Director's Office at the Getty Research Institute.
"With twelve major articles and over two hundred detailed catalog
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objects and the materials used to make them, this thorough book
offers an insight into the values of different cultures in the
ancient Americas."
--Current World Archaeology "A lush compendium of ornaments,
textiles and other objects associated with the gold-working
cultures from the ancient Americas."--Wall Street Journal
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