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Anthropomorphic standing figure, blind

Form: anthropomorphic, standing figure, stirrup spout on the back Colour/technique: red body, red-brown and white engobed, painted red-brown, partially polished, incised decoration Stirrup spout: red-brown VS: face red body shards, blind, facial scars in incised decoration, headdress/covering, red-brown cloak reaching to the ground over the shoulders, white outer garment with red-brown painted border underneath, arms angled, three anthropomorphic heads (shrunken heads? in the right hand?) Especially: in the right hand three anthropomorphic heads (shrunken heads?), facial scars, blind (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 17,9 x 10,8 x 14 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 47888

Provenance and sources

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

who
Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors

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