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Bird

Form: Double-bodied vessel with stirrup spout Colour/technique: red body, cream painted Stirrup spout: red body Front vessel: anthropo-zoomorphic figure (bird), head also whistling device Rear vessel: spherical, polymorphically geometrically painted (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
musical instruments
Dimensions
Height: 21,8 cm
Depth: 22,5 cm
Width: 11 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 48118

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Chimbote
    who
    Julius van der Zypen
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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