Round 12: Tossup 4

This culture’s art often depicted “ulluchu,” an unidentified fruit. Dumbarton Oaks holds drawings of art from 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 ceramics have increasingly realistic stirrup-spout portrait heads, while the fifth uses “fineline” drawings. Walter Alva discovered unlooted mummies from this culture at Sipan. Rafael Larco proposed that this culture worshipped “Ai Apaec” (“eye ah-peck”), a spider “decapitator” god, and set aside an “erotic gallery” in his museum of their ceramics. The largest structure in Pre-Columbian Peru, Huaca del Sol, was made by this culture. For 10 points, name this main culture of North Coast (-5[1])Peru in the mid-first millennium. (-5[1])■END■ (0[6])

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