This culture’s art often depicted “ulluchu,” an unidentified fruit. Dumbarton Oaks holds drawings of art from this culture 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 Peru in the mid-first millennium. ■END■
ANSWER: Moche culture [or Mochica culture]
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