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Portrait head

Form: anthropomorphic head, vertical spout with handle above the crown Colour/technique: light red body; painted white, black and dark red, polished, spout: white, set off in red on the body of the vessel, handle red VS: neck light red with tattoo/painting, face painted red, eyes white inside with black rim, headdress white, face tattoo/painting RS: white stripes of the headdress, neck area red Special: face tattoo/painting, also on the neck (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Portrait head
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 23,7 x 15,6 x 14,8 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 17901

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Moche

who
Baessler, Arthur - Collectors

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