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Parmi les dessins du désert de Nazca on distingue une immense araignée. La signification de ces images fantastiques a été l'objet de travaux contradictoires. Pour quelques archéologues, ce serait des signes en relation avec l’astronomie ; pour d'autres il s'agirait de véritables lieux de culte.

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Le désert de la côte sud montre de gigantesques dessins tracés dans le sable et attribués aux Nazca. L'un d'entre eux représente un condor de plusieurs dizaines de mètres de longueur. Ces figures ont été obtenues en enlevant la terre brune, riche en oxyde de fer, qui recouvre le fond sablonneux et jaunâtre, et en entassant cette dernière autour des zones ainsi dégagées.

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Tandis que le ciel tropical et le Pacifique se fondent au lointain, l'arrière-pays de Nazca n'est, dans le Sud-Pérou, qu'un long désert çà et là hanté de fantomatiques cactus-cierges.

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Tissée en coton, prolongée de franges abondantes, l'artistique chuspa d'un Indien coquero d'il y a six cents ans contenait encore sa provision de route de feuilles de coca. Le motif en étoile carrée du haut symbolise le lama céleste, géniteur et protecteur de l'espèce. (Museo regional de Ica, Pérou.)

Jar with head - Inca costeño - Nazca Valley - height 18 cm - around 1370 - Regional Museum of Ica - 1976

Ceremonial shirt from the Inca period (Coast) - 15th century - height 88cm and width 77.5 cm - squares 75x75 mm - Nazca valley - Regional Museum of Ica - 1976

Fabric with decorations of stylized people and lamas - width 30 cm, height of people 37 mm - Inca costeño culture - Nazca valley - around 1370 - Regional Museum of Ica - 1976

Fabric with decorations of stylized people and lamas - width 30 cm, height of people 37 mm - Inca costeño culture - Nazca valley - around 1370 - Regional Museum of Ica - 1976

Inca costeño fabric with representation of stylized feathers - around 1370 - Nazca Valley - width 26 cm - Regional Museum of Ica - 1976

Burial bundles of the coastal Tiahuanaco culture - Nazca Valley - 11th century - Regional Museum of Ica - 1976

Tiahuanaco fabric with four hands in red - Amano-Museum - Lima - 1976

Tiahuanaco culture ceramic vessel - Private collection Pelloni - Lima - 1969

Plate of the coastal Tiahuanaco culture - Nazca valley - 11th century - diameter 26 cm - Regional Museum of Ica - 1976

Coastal Tiahuanaco - Vessel with anthropomorphic representation of a warrior - Nazca valley - Height 32 cm - 10th century - Ica Regional Museum - 1969

Coastal Tiahuanaco - Vessel with anthropomorphic representation of a warrior - Nazca valley - Height 32 cm - 10th century - Ica Regional Museum - 1976

Ceramics of the coastal Tiahuanaco culture in the form of a man (priest?) with a Kero in his hands - 11th century - Nazca Valley - Museo Regional de Ica - 1976

Sunset on the road from Nazca to Puquio, Abancay and Cusco. These giant candelabra cacti are a common sight on the arid slopes of this region. – 1972

Vessel with a double spout and loop handles from the Nazca culture. This culture, which flourished during the Classical Period of pre-Columbian Peru between 100 and 800 AD in the coastal valleys of Ica, Pisco and Nazca, influenced both the surrounding areas and later cultures, right up to the Incas, with its outstanding pottery featuring vibrant colours. Museo Regional de Ica, Peru. - Book: Picture 68 - Peru - 1969