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Portrait head

Form: anthropomorphic head, vessel opening above the crown Colour/technique: red body, painted white and red-brown VS: face and neck red, eyes white, white headdress, red-brown headband with felid head above, ear decoration RS: white with red-brown band Special: ear decoration, headband with felid head (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Portrait head
Dimensions
Height: 15,6 cm
Depth: 13,3 cm
Width: 17,1 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 12009

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Chimbote
    who
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    I.M. Bolivar - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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