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Portrait head

Form: anthropomorphic head, vessel opening above the crown Colour/technique: black-brown body, painted white (heavily abraded) VS: eyes and ear ornaments white, pupils black-brown, white headdress with a white band pulled under the child, nasal septum pierced for nose ornament (missing) RS: white headdress with knot Special: double ear ornament, nasal septum pierced for nose ornament (missing) (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Portrait head
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 14,5 x 17 x 13,9 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 66780

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
who
Moche

who
Irene Pozzer - Former Possessors

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