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Handled vessel with supernatural
beings
The image on the frieze with knobs shows two interacting supernatural supernatural beings, one of which has anthropomorphic features. A comparable handle vessel from Pacasmayo in the Gretzer Collection with the same scene can be found in the Ethnological Museum Museum Berlin (SMB, inv. no. V A 47605).
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Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt
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Cataloguing data
Cultural attribution
Chimú
Object type
vessels (containers)
Dimensions
173 x 125 x 100 mm
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 31751
Other number(s)
RJM 1914/17
Provenance and sources
when
1000-1470
Period/Style
Late Intermediate Period; Chimú (style)
where
Peru
America -> South America -> Peru -> Coast (north)
-> Pacasmayo (Place)
when
1907
when
1915-19-03
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