The Australian Museum’s Machu Picchu exhibition brings ancient Andean societies to life – and features an extravagant collection of gold
The great Inca citadel, instantly recognisable as Peru’s world heritage-listed Machu Picchu, is the drawing card for the museum’s major summer exhibition.
The many snakes that decorate the pottery for everyday use and rituals, and the funereal finery discovered buried with the nobility that began to be excavated at the turn of the 20th century, symbolise the dark damp subterranean world, a place of the afterlife yet also where seeds are sown and germinate, a place from which all life springs.
High-ranking individuals donned ornate gold costume armour that clattered and glittered as they fought in these ritualistic battles that thrilled the public.
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