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Tumaco-Tolita gold figurine: A 2,000-year-old statue with a 'fancy nose ornament' from a vanished South American culture

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The Tumaco -Tolita people created a gold sculpture of a person near the Colombia - Ecuador border.

The standing figure is missing its feet, which were once attached by gold wire, as well as the accessories and objects it once held in its hands.

The figure may represent a woman, but it was more common to mark a sculpture with nipples for female statues than for male statues.

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90

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93

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90

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semi-formal

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English

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62

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long-living