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Corn deity

Shape: spherical and phytomorphic with stand ring, anthropo-zoomorphic application, spout on the back of the figure (broken off) Colour/technique: red body, white engobed, relief (anthropo-zoomorphic head, anthropomorphic heads and corncobs) Vessel body: designed as a bundle of white corncobs, three anthropomorphic heads are placed on the upper end, the middle and largest head is decorated with feline teeth and with ear jewellery ("Wrinkle Face"), the other two heads are unadorned, all three have a pointed headdress Special: ear jewellery (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 21,5 x 15,7 x 13,7 cm
Gewicht: 0,63 kg
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 4652

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Moche

who
José Mariano Macedo (1823 - 1894) - Collectors

Description
Purchase 1884

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