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Fineline Painting: polymoph geometric

Form: anthropomorphic head, vessel opening above the crown Colour/technique: light red body, painted white and reddish brown VS: face white in the middle (partially rubbed off) and painted reddish brown on the sides, neck light red, eyes white with reddish brown pupil, white headdress with headband, this painted reddish brown (polymorphic geometric), white ear decoration RS: white headdress with red-brown painting (fineline technique) Special (1): face tattoo/painting, ear jewellery Special (2): headband with painting (fineline technique) (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Portrait head
Dimensions
Height: 15,5 cm
Depth: 15,7 cm
Width: 12,5 cm
Weight: 0,456 kg
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 47870

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Trujillo
    who
    Julius van der Zypen
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Donation 1907
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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