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Stylized Bird Tairona Pendant
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Stylized Bird Tairona Pendant

This stylized bird pendant, crafted in a gold alloy by the Tairona (900–1600 AD), reflects the sacred role of animals in their cosmology. Birds symbolized flight between worlds—linking earth, sky, and spirit realms. Such pendants, worn in life or ritual, embodied protection, status, and ancestral connection in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.
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