Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Peruvian Cultures: Moche, Sican, Chimu, and Inca

I just took a vacation to Peru and learned about the Moche, Sican, Chimu, and Inca cultures. While I was there I went to a museum and saw many of their great art pieces. There were too many wonderful pieces to pick from so I finally decided to pick these ones.

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/images/h2/h2_64.228.21.jpg http://www.iatwm.com/200703/AncientPeru/cupsicandiety.jpg
This is an art piece This is a cup
from the Moche for drinking
culture. This is a from the
good piece of art Sican culture.
work because the
Moche were the
first to do
sculptures of big
heads.

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