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Bird/owl

Shape: zoomorphic, owl with anthropomorphic features, spout at the back of the head Colour/technique: red body, red-brown and white engobed, painted black, plumage on the back indicated by incised decoration Spout: white engobed (heavily rubbed off) Vessel body: bird body white engobed, bird back red-brown engobed, painted black around the eye area, ruff black (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 21,1 x 11,5 x 13,4 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 49761

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Pachacámac
who
Julius van der Zypen
Moche

who
Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors

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