Ancient Andean Civilizations
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of over 640 objects, dating from 50 to 1543, that represent Ancient Andean Civilizations. This collection, the second largest of its kind in Scotland, originates predominantly from Peru and other coastal cultures. It encompasses representative samples of the major coastal pre-Colombian Peruvian ceramics of the Moche, Nasca and Chimu sequences, and other material from Recuay, Huari, Chancay and Sican-Lambayeque. Objects include textiles, workbaskets, tools, mummy wrappings, body ornaments, costume, stone carving, furniture, domestic artefacts, paintings, souvenirs, crafts, contemporary sculpture, photographs, masks, hunting equipment and musical instruments. Of particular note are two handmade ceramic figurines from the south coast of Peru dated to the Late Nasca period, which are the only complete figures of this period known to exist in any museum. Ancient Andean Civilizations refers to the cultures of South and Central America that existed before the arrival of Spanish conquistadors in the 16th century.
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