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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 back 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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Data Provider
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt

Cataloguing data

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

Provenance and sources

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