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Portrait head
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Form: anthropomorphic head Colour/technique: red body, partially engobed in white, painted black and white VS: face and neck red, white headdress, eyes white with black rim, black painting in the chin area, vessel opening on the head, decoration on the temple RS: white Special: facial tattooing/painting, temple decoration (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Portrait head
Dimensions
Height: 18,2 cm
Depth: 18,5 cm
Width: 14,6 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 3509
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Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Moche
who
José Mariano Macedo (1823 - 1894) - Collectors

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED

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