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Portrait head

Form: anthropomorphic head, vessel opening on the head Colour/technique: red body, red-brown and white engobed, polished, damaged surface, painted white and red-brown VS: face and neck red, eyes white, reddish brown face painting around the eyes and nose, white headdress wound under the chin, painted reddish brown and geometric, RS: white headdress painted with rhombuses (fineline technique), red neck Special (1): face tattooing/painting Special (2): fineline painting (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Portrait head
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 19,9 x 16 x 16,1 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 12931

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
who
Moche

who
I.M. Bolivar - Collectors
Carl Plock - Collectors

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