Items from about 100 to 800 include personal ornaments like nose ornaments and knives and other ritual objects.
The crowns of the elite were made of several precious materials; in addition, they wore ceremonial masks, feather crowns, bracelets, nose ornaments and other items.
They picked up the words "nose ornament" but garbled pertinent details like the museum's hours and address and the dates of the exhibition.
In the Moche culture, whose skilled artisans used sophisticated techniques to combine gold, silver and copper, nose ornaments were a vital part of royal regalia.
The gold artifacts comprise of pendants, lip-plugs, nose ornaments, necklaces, and earrings.
Mayan men wore nose ornaments, earplugs, and lip plugs made of bone, wood, shells, and stones, including jade, topaz, and obsidian.
The friars discovered a fishing culture in the region, bearded Indians who seined the lake, and whose men wore bones as nose ornaments.
For example, on a nose ornament, gold threads were woven into the finest mesh to depict a spider's web, complete with four tiny spiders.
His nose ornament (its feathers once were a macaw's) comes apart and fits through a perforated septum.
The decapitator image decorates pectorals, headdresses, earrings and, a Moche specialty, nose ornaments.