tumi sican culture

Description

Perhaps the highly ornate ax-shaped ceremonial tumis made by the North coastal Peruvian cultures are the most widely acknowledged, characterized by a semi-circular blade, made of either bronze, copper, gold-alloy, silver alloy or wood and often inlayed with semi-precious stones such as lapis lazuli.
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Sacrificial Tumis are most often associated with
Pre-Inca cultures
in the
Peruvian
North Coastal Region and in some cases with the
Inca
culture itself. The most popular examples of ornamental tumis are associated with the Peruvian cultures of the
Chimu
and the
Sican