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Anthropomorphic head

Form: anthropomorphic head, vessel opening on the head Colour/technique: red body, painted white (heavily abraded, only preserved on the back of the head) VS: unpainted, round depression in the earlobe for jewellery inlay (missing), headdress in low relief, circles on the left side RS: white headdress (heavily abraded) with knot Especially: and depression in the earlobe for jewellery inlay (missing) (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Head vessel
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 9,2 x 8,6 x 9,1 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 48039

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Julius van der Zypen
Moche

who
Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors

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