reproductions What could be done for those many cultured tourists and Colombians who admired the beautiful Indian works of art and longed to own them? And what could be done for those museums around the world which were anxious to have in their collections the zoomorphic and anthropomorphic figures, or even one of the lovely vases which decorate the Gold Museum? There could be only one solution: reproduction. The respected Galeria Cano began making replicas of originals for these reasons. In its shop in Bogotá, the very same techniques are applied as were used by the pre-Columbians in making the fragile objects: lamination repousse work, the incision process, and the difficult, complicated, and laborious "proceso de la cera perdida," a wax molding process. In the display cases of the Galeria Cano, the figure of the frog&emdash;which for the Indians had a profound ritual meaning&emdash;is displayed in different sizes and many other objects. With the advent of the Galeria Cano, the art of reproduction in Colombia has acquired a new artistic purpose&emdash;the preservation of archeological relics. Recognition has been awarded to it by the Gold Museum of Bogota, the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, and the National Geographic Society of Washington, D.C., which has photographed and recorded the complex process of pre-Hispanic gold work.