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The Inca tern (Larosterna inca) is a near-threatened species of tern in the subfamily Sterninae of the family Laridae (the gulls, terns, and skimmers). [ 2 ] [ 1 ] It is found along the Pacific coasts of Chile , Ecuador and Perú , [ 3 ] and has appeared as a vagrant in Central America and Hawaii .
The black inca is about 14 cm (5.5 in) long and weighs about 6.6 to 7.0 g (0.23 to 0.25 oz). Both sexes have a long, straight, black bill and a white spot behind the eye. Adult males' upperparts are purplish black with dark metallic blue shoulders and a black forked tail.
Tsinhnahjinnie wrote the book, Our People, Our Land, Our Images: International Indigenous Photographers. Native photographers have taken their skills into the fields of art videography, photocollage, digital photography, and digital art.
The Inca jay was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1775 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux. [2] The bird was also illustrated in a hand-colored plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet in the Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle which was produced under the supervision of Edme-Louis Daubenton ...
Early/Middle Sican Tumi knife, 750-1100 AD, held at the Birmingham Museum of Art, it portrays the Sican Lord who abruptly disappeared from Sican art in the Late Sican phase (1100-1375) Sican Culture Ceremonial Knife (Tumi) from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City Sican-style Tumi, 750-1100 AD, from the north coast of Peru, gold with turquoise, exhibited in the Art Institute of Chicago
The Inca valued gold among all other metals, and equated it with the sun god Inti. Some Inca buildings in the capital of Cusco were literally covered in gold, and most contained many gold and silver sculptures. Most art was abstract in nature. Inca ceramics were primarily large vessels covered in geometric designs.
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English: Tupac Yupanqui XI, Inca Artist Peru (creator, Year late 1800s Creation location Type oil on canvas paintings (visual works) Height 641.35 Width 488.95 Depth Units mm City Museum/Gallery Denver Art Museum: Source Google Art Project: Home, pic: Permission Other notes Accession number: 1977.45.12