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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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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
Collecting
who
Baessler, Arthur - Collectors
Change of legal title:
Acquisition
Description
Donation 1900
Assignment to a curated holding:
American Archaeology

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