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Portrait head
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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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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
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Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
who
Moche
who
José Mariano Macedo (1823 - 1894) - Collectors

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