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Fineline painting: polymorphic geometric

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Form: anthropomorphic head, stirrup spout on top of skull Colour/technique: red body, white engobed and painted red-brown, polished, stirrup spout: white VS: face red, eyes white, scars on upper lip, headdress white and geometrically painted, ear ornaments RS: white, headdress painted in fineline technique, neck area reddish brown Special (1): ear jewellery, scars Special (2): headdress painted in fineline technique (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Portrait head
Dimensions
Weight: 0,78 kg
Height: 24,7 cm
Depth: 16,5 cm
Width: 19 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 17578

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Trujillo
    who
    Moche
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Donation 1900
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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