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Portrait head

Form: anthropomorphic head, spout above the crown (missing) Colour/technique: pale red body, painted pale white and red and polished VS: face pale red, eyes white with red pupil, ear decoration, white headdress, mouth strongly prognathic, facial tattooing in the temple area RS: white headdress with knot, neck pale red Special: ear decoration, facial tattooing in the temple area (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Portrait head
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 16,5 x 12,7 x 15 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 32536

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Trujillo
who
Moche

who
P. Otto Zembsch (1841-05-31 - 1911-03-02) - Collectors
Ernst Wilhelm Eduard von Knorr (1840-03-08 - 1920-02-17) - Former Possessors

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