Object description

Artifact made of bone is part of a set of eight pieces (phalanges of vertebrate animal) that made up a necklace, probably originally worn as an adornment and that seem to have belonged to the same animal. Associated with a burial held in an urn, once, without a doubt, it was offered as a funeral accompaniment to its owner. It is a beautiful sample of the inventiveness of the former Una settlers on the plains – to transform what was probably the rest of an appetizer into a delicate ornamental piece.