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Corn deity

Shape: bulbous vase with flat base, funnel-shaped spout at the top Colour/technique: red body, painted white, relief (anthropo-zoomorphic head and corn kernels) Spout: red body Vessel body: red body, the corn kernels depicted in white, the anthropo-zoomorphic head with felid teeth, hair depicted as corn kernels, the headdress like the end of a corn cob RS: hair as corn kernels (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 27,9 x 16,2 x 18,1 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 17815

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Moche

who
Baessler, Arthur - Collectors

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