Word: chimu
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...Mayan, but like the Mayan it has never been deciphered. Having no records to go by, archeologists are necessarily vague in categorizing Andean art, but laymen may find a certain poetic fascination in the mere names of the main civilizations: Chavin, Cupisnique, Salinar, Cavernas, Quimbaya, Chanapata, Chiripa, Mochica, Tiahuanaco, Chimu, Chibcha, Inca...
Peruvian textiles, justly famous since they equal or surpass in design and weave any textiles known today, will form an important part of the show. Peruvian pottery too, some of the finest pieces known from Nasca, Tiahuanaco, and Chimu, will be shown. The work of the potters of Chimu is perhaps the finest work in the New World, and runs the gamut of design from pure geometry to intensely realistic portrait pieces...
...romance, always with deep, appropriate, surging undertones of blood. In the Department of La Libertad one may see, today, a vast dilapidated circuit of walls enclosing an area of eleven square miles, the fabled and yet factual City of Chan-Chan. Here glowed the prehistoric splendor of the Chimu Empire, long, long before the great Imperial civilization of the Incas rose, to be conquered in later turn by Renaissance Spain. After three centuries of Spanish rule-galleons, slaves and sweated gold-romance in Peru was still at full tide. Only then came Simon Bolivar-hero of a continent...