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Disease presentation

Form: anthropomorphic head, spout with handle on the head Colour/technique: red body, painted white and red Spout and handle: white VS: face red, eyes and teeth white, mouth and nose deformed, facial tattooing/painting, headdress white, felid-shaped headband on top, scars on the cheeks, ear decoration RS: white, polymorphic geometric painted headgear Special: face tattoo/painting, scars on the cheeks, ear jewellery, headband in the shape of a felid, facial deformation (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Portrait head with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 20,9 cm
Depth: 17,7 cm
Width: 14,3 cm
Weight: 0,77 kg
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 14102

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    who
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    M.E. Zimmermann - Collectors
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Purchase 1903
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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