Word: ahlborn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trades earned the mestizo craftsmen better wages or higher social status than silversmithing. That they worked with surpassing skill can be seen in 210 examples of their wares, selected by the Smithsonian Institution's Richard Ahlborn, that go on view at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art this month. Silver was plentiful in colonial Peru, and Andean artisans used it for both religious and household articles. Grandees' stirrups alone weighed as much as 40 lbs., and in even the humblest Indian homes were found silver incense burners and boxes...