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Corn deity

Shape: bulbous vase, conical spout at the top Colour/technique: red body, painted white, relief (anthropo-zoomorphic head and corncob) Spout: red body with white lines Vessel body: corncob alternating red and white; anthropo-zoomorphic head with white felid teeth and pointed headdress on the neck of the vessel, ear ornaments and eyes white

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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel
Dimensions
Height: 26,7 cm
Depth: 16,1 cm
Width: 17 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 3727
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Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Moche
who
José Mariano Macedo (1823 - 1894) - Collectors

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