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Portrait head

Form: anthropomorphic head, vessel opening above the crown Colour/technique: red body, brown and white engobed, painted white VS: face and neck brown, eyes and ear decoration white, white facial tattooing/painting in the chin area, white headdress RS: red in the centre and white on the sides Special: facial tattooing/painting, ear decoration (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Portrait head
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 14,1 x 14,9 x 14,5 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 17925

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Moche

who
Baessler, Arthur - Collectors

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