Portrait head: artificial facial mutilation | Photographer: Sandra Steiß
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Portrait head: artificial facial mutilation
Form: anthropomorphic head modelled at the back of the head as a bulb with sprouted eyes, stirrup spout above the crown Colour/technique: dark red body, painted white and black, stirrup spout white VS: face red, black facial tattooing/painting, white teeth and nostrils, white eyes with black pupils, red headdress with white polymorphic geometric painting, knot of the headdress on the crown, lower lip decoration RS: back of the head red and modelled as a bulb with white chimney eyes Special: facial tattooing/painting, lower lip decoration (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)
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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Portrait head with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 28 x 13,3 x 16,7 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 48036
Provenance and sources
when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Julius van der Zypen
Moche
who
Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors
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