These objects were made from bronze using the lost-wax casting method, and the decorations on one discovered at Ngoc Lu (“nyock loo”) include the Lạc bird. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these objects whose manufacture by one mainland culture influenced local varieties like Bali’s Moon of Pejeng. Another variety of these objects called taiko was first made in Japan during the Kofun period.
ANSWER: drums [prompt on musical instruments]
[10h] The Ngoc Lu drum was made by this culture that inhabited the Red River Delta in modern-day Vietnam. Ma Yuan turned some of this culture’s drums into a pair of bronze horses after the defeat of the Trưng sisters.
ANSWER: Đông Sơn [or Dongsonian; prompt on Lạc Việt]
[10e] Decorative motifs on Đông Sơn drums often included depictions of people threshing this staple crop, which was grown in flooded paddies in the “wet” method of cultivation.
ANSWER: rice [or Oryza sativa]
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