1 Founded in 1873, it was originally called the North West Mounted Rifles, but the reaction of the United States to the idea of an armed force patrolling the border caused the name to be changed to the North West Mounted Police. 2  As the only authority in the region, the force assumed a wide variety of duties.
Peruvian art has its origin in the Andean civilizations. These civilizations rose in the territory of modern Peru before the arrival of the Spanish.he first center of art established by the Spanish was the Cuzco School that taught Quechua artists European painting styles. Diego Quispe Tito (1611-1681) was one of the first members of the Cuzco school and Marcos Zapata (1710-1773) was one of the last.
Seventeen thousand years ago, humans painted realistic images of bulls, bison, stags, horses, and other animals on the walls of the caves of Lascaux, in France. They made stencils of their hands, too. Thereâs lots of cave art in Europe, but there is also prehistoric cave art in Indonesia. The Indonesian art was discovered in the 1950â²s in a cave on the island of Sulawesi. There were paintings of indigenous mammals; a midget water buffalo, a warty pig, and a pigâdeer, and there were hand stencils like the ones at Lascaux.