Packet N: Tossup 4

This culture’s art often depicted “ulluchu,” an unidentified fruit. (10[1])Dumbarton Oaks holds drawings of art from (-5[1])this culture (-5[1])by Donnan and McClelland that they used to discover “themes” like “The Burial Theme” and “The Revolt of the Objects.” Izumi Shimada named one descendant of this culture the Sican (“see-KAHN”). The first four periods of this culture’s (-5[1])ceramics have increasingly realistic stirrup-spout portrait heads, while the fifth uses “fineline” drawings. Walter Alva discovered unlooted mummies from this culture at Sipan. (-5[2])Rafael Larco proposed that this culture worshipped “Ai Apaec” (10[1]-5[2])(“eye ah-peck”), a spider “decapitator” (10[1]-5[1])god, and set aside (-5[2])an “erotic gallery” (-5[1])in his museum of their ceramics. (-5[1])The largest structure in Pre-Columbian Peru, (-5[2])Huaca del Sol, was made by this (-5[1])culture. (-5[4])For 10 points, name this main (-5[2])culture of North Coast (-5[2])Peru in (-5[1])the mid-first (-5[1])millennium. (-5[3])■END■ (10[4]0[31])

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