Metallurgy
The Chimu conquer the Lambayeque culture, so it is hard to say what piece belongs to what culture.One sample of this is the"Tumi", that seems to be an artifact from Lambayeque culture not a Chimu one.El Tumi is a knife with half-moon shaped blade and the handler is a sculpture of the Naylamp god.
They work in repoussé, know how to alloy, also know to weld among other advanced techniques.They hammer the copper to get very hard weapons.They work the gold and the silver and know how to embed stones as decorations.They made masks to be used to cover their mummies.
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