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title: "Idol with doll and chisel"
summary: "Idol with doll and chisel. Página institucional de Amaranto Museo Virtual de Derecho Constitucional en la Universidad Externado de Colombia. The work is a symbiosis between Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse and a pre-Hispanic sculpture from the Agustinian culture."
description: "The work is a symbiosis between Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse and a pre-Hispanic sculpture from the Agustinian culture."
url: "https://www.uexternado.edu.co/en/amaranto-museo-virtual/2-derechos/idolo-con-muneca-y-cincel/"
type: "page"
language: "en-US"
site: "Universidad Externado de Colombia"
section: "Amaranto Museo Virtual de Derecho Constitucional"
updated: "2026-06-11T11:37:04-05:00"
---

Publicado: 9 of November of 2021

# Idol with doll and chisel

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[Gallery 2. Rights](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/en/amaranto-museo-virtual/2-derechos/)

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**Photo credits: Nadín Ospina**  
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#### Nadín Ospina

2001  
carved stone  
70 x 35 x 32 cm

The work is a symbiosis between Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse and a pre-Hispanic sculpture from the Agustinian culture. In the manner of shamans and sages from the Huacayo works—an indigenous name—the figure holds a staff of command in one hand and a figurine resembling a doll in the other. The artist directly and ironically questions the commercialisation of cultural heritage, protected by articles 63, 70 and 72 of the Political Constitution. On this matter, the Constitutional Court ruling SU-649 of 2017 examines the transfer of the “Quimbaya Collection” from a Colombian head of state to a Spanish head of state and considers the possibility of recovering this cultural heritage through diplomatic channels.

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#### See

[About the Artwork](http://www.galeriaelmuseo.com/archives/424/)

[About the Artist](https://nadinospina.org/del-otro-mundo-2015-2016/)

[Sentencia C-649/17. Devolución diplomática de la “Colección Quimbaya”](https://www.corteconstitucional.gov.co/relatoria/2017/SU649-17.htm)

[Parque San Agustín UNESCO](https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/744/)

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