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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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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Portrait head
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 15,5 x 12,5 x 15,7 cm
Gewicht: 0,46 kg
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 47870

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Trujillo [Stadt]
who
Julius van der Zypen
Moche

who
Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors

Description
Donation 1907

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