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GOLD AND POWER IN ANCIENT COSTA RICA, PANAMA, AND COLOMBIA GOLD AND POWER IN ANCIENT COSTA RICA, PANAMA, AND COLOMBIA A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks 9 and 10 October 1999 Jeffrey Quilter and John W. Hoopes, Editors Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection Washington, D.C. Copyright © 2003 Dumbarton Oaks Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America Frontispiece: King Antonio Saldaña of Talamanca wearing a necklace of tumbaga bird-effigy pendants. Detail of a portrait by S. Llorente, 1892. ©1992 National Museum of Costa Rica, Editorial Escudo de Oro, S.A. (Calvo Mora, Bonilla Vargas, and Sánchez Pérez, 1992) Cataloging-in-Publication Data for this volume is on file with the Library of Congress. ISBN 0-88402-294-3 Contents Map: Archaeological culture areas and contemporary states in southern Central America and Colombia vii Chronological Chart: Prehistoric Costa Rica and Panama viii Chronological Chart: Prehistoric Colombia ix Introduction: The Golden Bridge of the Daríen 1 Jeffrey Quilter “Catching the Light”: Technologies of Power and Enchantment in Pre-Columbian Goldworking 15 Nicholas J. Saunders Goldwork and Chibchan Identity: Endogenous Change and Diffuse Unity in the Isthmo-Colombian Area 49 John W. Hoopes and Oscar M. Fonseca Z. Who Crafted, Exchanged, and Displayed Gold in Pre-Columbian Panama? 91 Richard Cooke, Ilean Isaza, John Griggs, Benoit Desjardins, and Luís Alberto Sánchez From Jade to Gold in Costa Rica: How, Why, and When 159 Michael J. Snarskis Metallurgy, Balls, and Stone Statuary in the Diquís Delta, Costa Rica: Local Production of Power Symbols 205 Patricia Fernández and Ifigenia Quintanilla The Political Economy of Pre-Columbian Gold Work: Four Examples from Northern South America 245 Carl Henrik Langebaek VI Creation Imagery in the Goldwork of Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia 279 Mark Miller Graham Gold, Stone, and Ideology: Symbols of Power in the Tairona Tradition of Northern Colombia 301 Warwick Bray The Seed of Life: The Symbolic Power of Gold-Copper Alloys and Metallurgical Transformations 345 Ana María Falchetti Gold in the Everyday Lives of Indigenous Peoples of Sixteenth-Century Southern Central America. 383 Eugenia Ibarra Index 421 Greater Central Highlands/ Atlantic Central Nicoya Central Pacific Watershed Diquís Chiriquí Panama 1600 1550 Contact Period Late Ceramic E 1500 1450 Ometepe Late Ceramic D 1400 1350 1300 Cartago La Cabaña Chiriquí Chiriquí Late Ceramic C 1200 1100 Sapoá 1000 Late Ceramic B 900 San Lorenzo 800 Late Ceramic A 700 La Selva Curridabat 600 Aguas Middle Ceramic C 500 Bagaces Buenas 400 Aguas 300 Middle Ceramic B Buenas 200 El Bosque 100 AD. Pavas La 0 Concepcíon Middle Ceramic A 100 B.C. Tempisque 200 300 400 500 600 700 Early Ceramic B 800 Barba La Montaña Sinacrá 900 1000 1100 1200 Orosi 1300 1400 1500 1600 Early Ceramic A 1700 1800 1900 2000 Chronological Chart: Prehistoric Costa Rica and Panama Guajira Modern LatePeriod ? Late PeriodLos CocosPoracelli Early PeriodLa Loma ElHorno darta rra NevaSanta Ma Tairona Neguanje Malambo Siede LowerMagdalena Modern LateFormative MiddeFormative Malambo La Sierra ? Sinú MalibúComplejoLas Palmas TradiciónModeladaPintada TradiciónGranulosaIncisa ? Muisca Modern LateMuisca EarlyMuisca LateHerrera EarlyHerrera EarlyHerrera d o o oquia Perio o Viej o Viejrería Anti Late Puebl PueblFer Middleca Valley Quimbaya Quimbaya Cau Late Early Calima Sonso Yotoco Ilama a Tierradentro Late Period Middle Period Early Period 3 Early Period 2 Early Period 1 oric Colombi st hi Magdalena ? ecent nal Classic mative 3 mative 2 mative 1 Chart: Pre er R gio For For For al p e c Up R ogi 600 500 400 300 200 100 000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .AD 00 ..BC 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 000 100 efore 100 hronol 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 2 B 2 C