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Bird

Shape: Double-bodied vessel with spout and handle (spout broken off) Colour/technique: brown body, brown and cream engobed, painted black and brown Stirrup spout: brown body Front vessel: spherical and zoomorphic (bird), brown engobed and painted black, bird's head engobed in cream colour and painted as a whistling device and brown Rear vessel: spherical, brown engobed, painted with cream-coloured band at the base of the spout (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
musical instruments
Dimensions
Height: 15,1 cm
Depth: 20,5 cm
Width: 9,2 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18250

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Chimbote
    who
    Moche
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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