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Vessel in the shape of a person

The vessel with a funnel-shaped spout is in the shape of an anthropomorphic figure anthropomorphic figure with its hands resting on its stomach. The person is wearing a headscarf and over it a ring or a headband depicting a felid (puma?). (puma?).

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Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt
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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
vessels (containers)
Dimensions
286 x 176 x 156 mm
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 31790
Other number(s)
RJM 1914/17

Provenance and sources

when
300-750
Period/Style
Early Intermediate Period - Middle Horizon; Moche III-IV (style)
where
Peru
America -> South America -> Peru -> Coast (north) -> Chimbote (place)

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

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