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Ape with chalk case

Form: anthropo-zoomorphic, standing figure with monkey's head, stirrup spout on the back Colour/technique: red-brown and cream engobed, red-brown, black, beige painted Stirrup spout: red-brown engobed Vessel body: Head reddish brown, the chin area cream-coloured, ear ornaments, back of the head black, upper garment cream-coloured, a small bag on the left shoulder, polymorphically geometrically decorated, in the hands a lime container (poporo) (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 25,5 x 15,5 x 23,8 cm
Gewicht: 1,01 kg
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 62138

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Valle de Chicama [Tal]
Hacienda de Casa Grande (near Trujillo) [Ort]
who
Moche

who
Sigmund Gildemeister - Collectors

Description
Purchase 1925

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