Vicus Gold Tweezers

A Pre-Columbian Vicus gold nose ornament and tweezers made of a folded oblong sheet of gold with soldered filigree spirals.

Peru, Vicus, north coast,
Ca. 300 BC - 300 AD.
Width: 6 in. (15.1 cm).
Weight: 36.5 gm.
Intact.

Tweezers were Pre-Columbian Andean status implements fabricated in copper, silver and gold, with gold reserved for the highest level of status.