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L MARVELOUS JEWELRY
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Sixty-eight Pieces Dug From One j
Ancient Grave Weighed
i Sixteen Pounds.
I Upon the long table in the dining
room of an ultra modern apartment i
in nnromantic West End avenue, New
^ York, one day not long ago lay spread
out treasure that carried the thoughts
of its beholders thousands of miles
away and six centuries back.
Gold! Not the minted tokens of a
government's solvency, nor yet such
melted down bars as are corded up so
, neatly in federal treasury vaults.
This was Chibcha gold. Breastplates,
aprons, bracelets, nose rings,
scepter heads, chimes; the loot of a
chieftain's or princesse grave m tne
mountains of Antioqui, Colombia?
f the New Granada of the days of the
Spanish conquest. It is (this on the
word of competent archaeologists)
the greatest collection of preconquest
? gold ever assembled; it is, in fact,
almost the only collection of any pretension.
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What is it worth? What would
Solomon's crown be worth if it were
found?
I But if you insist upon sordid details
the collection, 52 major pieces,
weighs 16 troy pounds, all pure gold.
The Muyscas, or Chibchas, were a
race of unknown antiquity. Their descendants
live today in Colombia, but
their traditions fell us little and their
forebears left no written records. It
is known, however, that prior to the
\L Spanish conquest they lived in settled
I communities, mostly in the mountainI
ous regions back from the coast.
Unlike the Incas, the Chibchas have
left no massive buildings, no temples,
no roads. But in the graves of their
priests, their chiefs and their prin^
cesses they left gold ornaments and
? implements which equal in skill and
I beauty of workmanship and design
' anything the Incas made.
Their love of gold was chaste and
pure; there was no taint of commer||
cialism or cupidity in it. Gold was to
| them merely a thing of beauty. It
I had no commercial value; copper was
the more highly prized, for they knew
how to make tools from copper. Gold
. was to them what the plumage of
B ' birds'is to us;?merely the material
Jr, from which things of beauty could be
.*> made.
^ They swathed their, dead in leaves
and grass and buried them in graves,
r not in tombs, with their* important
dignitaries they buried their possesk
sions.
B ? Then came the Spaniards. Alonzo
d& Ojeda, touched the coast of Colombia
in-1499-1501. Columbus touched
' ' it on the last voyage in 1502. Gonzalo
Jimenez de Quesadp. landed in 153637,
and penetrated to Bogota, the
capital of the Chibchas. After the
explorers came the hordes of adventurers
lured by the one lure?gold!
t < The Spaniards forced the Indians
| to mine gold at the end of the lash,
and, prodded from behind by pikes
and bound together with chains,
ri made them cfcrry it down to thq sea
f cbast and aboard galleons, and at the
lash end, too, they made the Indians
i tell where their graves were and dig
them up for the gold ornaments.
I N The Spaniards swept as clean as
they could, but they couldn't find
every Chibcha grave. So nowadays,
j in the interior of mountainous Antioquia,
it is a custom to stake an Ids'
' dian or half breed to "grub and
clothes" and send him out to search
for buried treasure. The graves are
i tunjos; the searchers are tunjeros.
Thus Aurelio Gutierrez of Ayepel
kept grubstaking tunjeros for five
years. They brought back small
pieces now and then; enough to keep
up his interest, but never anything'of
importance.
Early in 1919 they were exploring
likely looking spots in the neighborV
hood of Ayapel, a village whose InB
dian name means appropriately
maining pieces Senor Gutterez took
practiced eyes were spying out the indications
of early Chibcha occupancy.
BT They dug into many graves that contained
little or nothing of value. Then
BB they made the richest find since the
early conquest period. Sixty-eight
f pieces were found in one grave.
Senor ^Gutierrez was delighted; he
might well have been. Here was
something worth while. It occurred
to him, too, that the stuff was worth
more in its original form than melted
down into bullion. But where would
he dispose of it?
Some Americans offered to bring it
to the United States and divide with
him all that the collection brought
above he bullion value (the bullion
vaiue aiso going 10 mm, ui wuioc;.
"He thought the proposal was equittable,
but he didn't know the Americans
very well.
About one-fourth of the collection
eventually found its way into the
Field museum in Chicago. The remaining
pieces Senor Gutterroz took
to Barranquilla and after some difficulty
interested Ernesto Cortissoz,
s head of the principal bank of Barranquilla.
Senor Cortissoz was coming
to the United States and he agreed to
bring the treasure to New York.
Most gorgeous of all the pieces are
MAIvi: (iOOl) FlKHKllMKN.
Japs of Monterey Are Quiet and Attend
to Their Own Business.
The Japanese association of Monterey
is a body to which all the Japanese
of that section belong. Some of
them are farmers, some business men,
but the most of the members are fishermen.
These fishermen have built
up a successful industry in Monterey
and send out nearly 150 boats each
day of the fishing season to brinv
the:r toll from the deep waters.
These boats during a season catch
from $900 to $2,000 each in salmon,
with an average of $1,500 for salmon
and about $900 in sardines. The fishermen
can ply their vocation only
nine months in the year, and the balance
of the time they spend chiefly in
making repairs.
The life of the fisherman is not an
easy one, and he is entitled to all that
he can make. He leaves about 6
o'clock in the evening and fishes
mostly at night, coming into port in
the early hours of the morning. Then
the forenoon is well taken up with the
unloading of their catch. Often during
the afternoon it is necessary to
make repairs and mend nets and attend
to numerous other small jobs.
The work is also dangerous, and. taking
it all in all, the lives of these people
are not to be particularly envied.
But the Japanese have been very
successful. The Nipponese residents
are quiet and attend strictly to their
business. " .
The prettiest line of box papers
at The Herald Book Store.
the breastplates, eight of them. Some
are 30 inches across, great blazing
yellow suns, ornately embossed with
designs of crocodiles and serpents.'
Others are 16 inches in diameter,
o-ith hoantifnl wnrk in renousse.
More exquisite in taste and infinitely
more difficult of execution are the
filigree earrings. Four inches from
tip to tip, across the diameter of a
semicircle. At first glance the design
seems to be made of seven stripes of
gold lace, fairylike in delicacy. But
lift one! No'modern skimping of material
in these pieces. The ancient
artisan has used at least $100 worth
of the virgin metal for this single
piece. The meshes of the lace are
net gold wire, skillfully soldered. The
whole ornament is one integral chunk
of metal, the filigree cut out by sharp
tools.
Another piece is an amusing little
monkey, sitting in a chair?a perfect
little chair of the pattern we use today?wearing
a sort of broad brimmed
hat and holding the half of a
cocoanut shell beneath his chin, while
his elbows rest on his knees. The
whole thing is an inch or so high and
an inch and a half long. It fitted on
the end of a staff and scepter.
One earring is ornamented with
bangles. Above the row of bangles
are two rows of equisite gold lace
which isn't lace at all, but lattice cut
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tram 111c suuu VJI mutui,
in a frame of elaborate scroll work.
An opulent nose piece is shaped
like a crescent moon with the tips
incurved so they almost touch. There
is not a scroll or a scratch or an ornament
upon it. It was intended,
doubtless, to flash in the rays of the
sun like a mirror, when the wearer's
lips moved. Like everything else, it
is twice as thick as it need to be to
get the effect; economy of the metal
apparently did not worry the Chibchas.?M.
A. Rose in The Sun and
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