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Fineline painting: polymorphic geometric

Form: anthropomorphic head, stirrup spout above the crown (broken off) Colour/technique: red body, white, red-brown and black painted and polished Stirrup spout: red VS: face painted red-brown on the sides, eyes white, white headdress on top red-brown painting (geometric), winding up to under the chin, facial tattooing/painting on the cheeks and eyebrows, scars (?) RS: white Special (1): face tattoo/painting, scars (?) Special (2): headdress painted in fineline technique (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Portrait head
Dimensions
Weight: 0,741 kg
Height: 20 cm
Depth: 16,4 cm
Width: 18,5 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 17917

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Chimbote
    who
    Moche
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Donation 1900
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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