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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 426982, member: 2844&quot;][USER=36]@evelyb30[/USER] , the style of yours could be Chimú, a later Moche culture from the north coast of Peru.</p><p><br /></p><p>A lot of genuine pre-Columbian items from the Americas have come from looted graves.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":(" unselectable="on" /></p><p>They used to be dug up by poor people trying to make some money, nowadays there are also criminal gangs.</p><p>There is now a ban, and rightly so. But many pre-ban Peruvian artifacts were also sold legally, from legitimate digs through legitimate channels. In those days those items were often considered of no special historic interest, because they had found so much (of better quality) already. The best pieces went to museums, the rest was surplus and extra income.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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