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Vessel with sexual scene
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The black vessel is shaped as an embracing couple and represents a sexual act. The limbs of the figures were applied to such the limbs of the figures were applied. See also the two vessels from the Ludwig Collection RJM 60292-60293. in the Ethnological Museum Berlin, e.g. from Trujillo in the Gretzer Collection (SMB, inv. no. V A 47799).

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Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt
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Cultural attribution
Chimú
Object type
vessels (containers)
Dimensions
188 x 150 x 110 mm
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 31734
Other number(s)
RJM 1914/17

Provenance and sources

when
between 1000-1470
Period/Style
Late Intermediate Period; Chimú (style)
where
Peru
America -> South America -> Peru -> Coast (north)

when
1907
who
Julius van der Zypen (1842 - 1907) - Funders
Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin - Recipients

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