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Portrait head

Form: anthropomorphic head, funnel-shaped spout above the crown Colour/technique: light red body, painted and polished white and dark red Spout: red and set off in white on the vessel VS: face and neck red, eyes and double ear decoration white, black facial tattooing/painting, black Headdress or mop of hair with knot above the forehead RS: black Special: facial tattooing/painting, double ear decoration (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Portrait head
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 28,6 x 19,4 x 23 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 17922

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Moche

who
Baessler, Arthur - Collectors

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