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Whistling vessel

Form: Double-bodied vessel, stirrup spout on top, zoomorphic application Colour/technique: red body, red-brown and cream engobed, cream painted (fineline technique) Stirrup spout: cream engobed Front vessel: cube-shaped and red-brown engobed, zoomorphic application (bird) on top, red body with cream-coloured circles on the plumage rear vessel: spherical, polymorphically geometrically painted (triangles/spirals/waves) (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Whistling vessel
Dimensions
Height: 25 cm
Depth: 18,8 cm
Width: 11,1 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 4172
Related object(s)

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Trujillo
    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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