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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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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Portrait head with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 28 cm
Depth: 16,7 cm
Width: 13,3 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 48036

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Chimbote
    who
    Julius van der Zypen
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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