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Application: Bird; Fineline Painting: Plumage

Shape: spherical with stand ring, appliqué bird's neck and bird's head with whistling device, stirrup spout on the back of the head Colour/technique: yellow and red body, red-brown and cream engobed, painted red-brown (fineline technique) stirrup spout: red-brown engobed Vessel body: horizontally divided into two parts, lower part red body, upper part cream-coloured engobed and zoomorphically painted (strongly stylised birds) Special: fineline painting (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
musical instruments
Dimensions
Height: 21,5 cm
Depth: 15,7 cm
Width: 11,2 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 757
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Provenance and sources

Production
when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Trujillo
who
Moche
Collecting
who
Bastian, Adolf - Former Possessors
Johannes Lührsen (1838 - 1903) - Collectors
Assignment to a curated holding:
American Archaeology

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