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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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Data Provider
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
who
Julius van der Zypen (1842 - 1907) - Funders

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