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Anthropomorphic head

Form: anthropomorphic head with decorative ring in the lower jaw, vessel opening at the neck Colour/technique: red body, engobed red-brown and light red, painted cream VS: face painted brown, eyes and teeth white, ears wrinkled, white headband wound under the chin, plastically moulded and white ring as lower jaw ornament RS: reddish Special: protruding ring as lower jaw ornament, perforated earlobe for ear jewellery (missing) (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Head vessel
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 20 x 23,7 x 19,2 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 17939

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Moche

who
Baessler, Arthur - Collectors

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