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Portrait head

Shape: anthropomorphic head, vessel opening on the head Colour/technique: red body, partially engobed in white and red-brown VS: face reddish brown, neck red, white and red headgear coiled around the head to below the chin and knotted there, zoomorphic head above the forehead as part of the headgear, eyes white, crescent-shaped white nose ring lying over the mouth, ear ornaments as round discs with white dots RS: white with reddish brown stripes Special: ear ornaments, crescent-shaped white nose ring (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Portrait head
Dimensions
Height: 16,5 cm
Depth: 14,7 cm
Width: 13,3 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 4711
Related object(s)

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    who
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    José Mariano Macedo (1823 - 1894) - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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