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Application: Monkey head

Shape: spherical, zoomorphic application (monkey's head), stirrup spout on the back of the head (spout broken off) Colour/technique: red body, cream and red-brown engobed (heavily abraded), unpainted stirrup spout: cream engobed Vessel body: red body, on the back the body of the monkey is depicted in negative painting (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 20 cm
Depth: 21,1 cm
Width: 14,4 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18131

Provenance and sources

Production
when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Moche
Collecting
who
Baessler, Arthur - Collectors
Assignment to a curated holding:
American Archaeology

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