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Vessel in the shape of a shod foot

The lower part of the cup is shaped like a human foot in a sandal. sandal. This object is identified, among other things, due to its damage to the rim of the vessel in a photo by Gretzer of the Landesmuseum Hannover (photo_1_5_968). A comparable vessel from Trujillo in the Gretzer Collection is in the Ethnological Museum Berlin (SMB, inv. no. V A 47836).

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Data Provider
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt
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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Chimú Inka
Object type
vessels (containers)
Dimensions
172 x 100 x 165 mm
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 31771
Other number(s)
RJM 1914/17

Provenance and sources

when
between 1470-1534
Period/Style
Late Intermediate Period - Late Horizon; Chimú-Inca (style)
where
Peru
America -> South America -> Peru -> Coast (north) -> Pacasmayo (Place)

when
1907
who
Julius van der Zypen (1842 - 1907) - Funders

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