Ancient Visayan Goldworking

The manny different kinds of large and small beads, all of what they call filigree work here.. is clear evidence that they did careful, delicate and beautiful work even better in their antiquity than now since all the ancient gold work is of higher gold content and craftsmanship than what is being made now... [like the kamagi], a piece of jewelry of greater value and curiosity than could be expected of a people apparently so crude and uncivilized (Alcina 1668a, 3:121).

As Alcina said century later, "One who knows how to make them today is hard to find."

Barangay: Sixteenth-Century Phiippine Culture and Society by William Henry Scott:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?index=books&linkCode=qs&keywords=9715...

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Nice! since bofore i love visayan history in VISMIN... The true hearts of Pilipino... Thank you!