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Application: Monkey head

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Form: spherical, zoomorphic appliqué (monkey's head), spout on the back (broken off) Colour/technique: red body, painted cream (heavily abraded), relief body: the monkey's front paws in relief Appliqué: monkey's head with perforated mouth and two perforations next to the ears, ear decoration (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Whistling vessel
Dimensions
Height: 20,1 cm
Depth: 14,7 cm
Width: 14 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18130

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Chimbote
    who
    Moche
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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