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Anthropomorphic figure with skull

Shape: two-part vessel in anthropomorphic form and spherical, spout with handle on the spherical part of the vessel Colour/technique: grey and red body, brown and cream engobed, cream and brown painted Spout with handle: cream engobed Anthropomorphic vessel body: seated figure, head red-brown and cream-coloured, eyes, nose and mouth moulded as complete opening, brown outer garment with cream-coloured decoration, unidentifiable object (broken off) in the hands Spherical vessel body: engobed cream-coloured, surrounding frieze of triangles at the base of the spout (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
musical instruments
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 18,3 x 17,9 x 11 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 48101

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Julius van der Zypen
Moche

who
Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors

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