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Anthropomorphic laying figure: ill person depiction

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Form: phytomorph, cassava tuber with anthropomorphic face, stirrup spout on the back Colour/technique: light yellow engobed, painted red-brown Vascular body: germinal eyes red-brown, eyebrows, eyes and mouth red-brown on the face, mouth and nose pathogenically deformed (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 21,3 cm
Depth: 18,7 cm
Width: 8,3 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 62150

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Valle de Chicama
    Hacienda de Casa Grande (near Trujillo)
    who
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    Sigmund Gildemeister - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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