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Vessel with handle

The black handle vessel is designed in the shape of a human head. in the shape of a human head. The many furrows and wrinkles suggest an old person. The The belly of the vessel is surrounded at the sides and rear by a band with tocapus and small felid-like ears. A vessel with a very similar head from Pacsamayo from the Gretzer collection is in the Ethnological Museum Berlin (SMB, inv. no. V A 47653).

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Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt
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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Chimú Inka
Object type
vessels (containers)
Dimensions
160 x 125 x 151 mm
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 31759
Other number(s)
RJM 1914/17

Provenance and sources

when
1470-1534
Period/Style
Late Intermediate Period - Late Horizon; Chimú-Inca (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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