Question

A repatriation controversy rages over a piece of headwear from this civilisation in Vienna’s Weltmuseum. A 1993 paper about this civilisation’s art by Cecelia Klein discusses the significance of “holy shit”, or “divine excrement”. This civilisation’s art often depicts speech using volute-shaped scrolls next to people’s heads. The British Museum holds a piece of (15[1])pectoral jewelry from this civilisation made from wood inlaid with turquoise, which depicts a double-headed (*) serpent. Native artists from this civilisation contributed many drawings to an ethnography produced by Bernardino de Sahagun called the Florentine Codex. (10[2])An artefact from this civilisation depicts Tonatiuh (“ton-ah-TEE-oo”) at the centre of a ritual stone calendar. For 10 points, the Sunstone was created by what civilisation, whose art depicts gods like Huitzilopochtli (“H’WIT-zil-oh-POSHT-lee”) and Quetzalcoatl ■END■

ANSWER: Aztec civilisation [or Mexica civilisation]
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