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Vessel

The oval, black vessel with a base and neck with a curved spout rim is shaped spout rim is shaped like a human head. The decoration of the headdress consists of braided patterns. See also RJM 31757 The Ethnological Museum owns several such vessels, including one from Trujillo in the Gretzer Collection (SMB, inv. no. V A 47817).

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Data Provider
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt
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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Chimú Inka
Object type
vessels (containers)
Dimensions
163 x 110 x 99 mm
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 31746
Other number(s)
RJM 1914/17

Provenance and sources

when
1470-1534
Period/Style
Late horizon; Chimú-Inca (style)
where
Peru
America -> South America -> Peru -> Coast (north) -> Pacasmayo (Place)

when
1907
who
Julius van der Zypen (1842 - 1907) - Funders

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