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The author with Atty Gúndiwa Villafaña and Wilfrido Izquierdo at the Museo del Oro Tairona–Casa de la Aduana in Santa Marta, Colombia. They are Arhuaco, one of Colombia’s indigenous groups and descendants of the ancient Tairona civilization that lived in this area beginning in 200 BCE if not before. (Paul Bogard)