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Vessel

The top of the vessel is designed as a quadrupedal animal with felid-like facial features. features, its wide open mouth serving as an opening and its tail as a handle. handle. On many other vessels of this type, the feline figure can be identified more clearly. more clearly. The belly of the vessel with a further handle is surrounded by a band, decorated with knobs and fish. The vessel can be attributed to the Chimú-Inca style, See also RJM 31770. The Ethnological Museum Berlin owns several such vessels with different bands, one of which is from the Gretzer and Macedo collections and comes from Pacasmayo (SMB, inv. no. V A 47560)

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Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt
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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Chimú
Object type
vessels (containers)
Dimensions
145 x 160 x 180 mm
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 31740
Other number(s)
RJM 1914/17

Provenance and sources

when
1470 -1534
Period/Style
Late horizon; Chimú-Inca (style)
where
Peru
America -> South America -> Peru -> Coast (north) -> Chiclayo (place)

when
1907
who
Julius van der Zypen (1842 - 1907) - Funders

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