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Bird

Form: Double-bodied vessel, spout on the rear body, handle broken off Colour/technique: red-brown and cream engobed Handle: red-brown engobed Front vessel: spherical with zoomorphic application (bird's head/parrot), this at the same time whistling device, completely cream-coloured, body red-brown engobed Rear vessel: spherical, cream engobed (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Whistling vessel (double-body vessel)
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 17,9 x 11 x 18,7 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VII E 7632

Provenance and sources

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

who
Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors

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