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Seated anthropomorphic figure with facial mutilation

Form: anthropomorphic, seated figure, stirrup spout on back Colour/technique: orange body, red-brown and cream engobed, incised decoration, painted red-brown (fineline technique) Stirrup spout: red-brown engobed Vessel body: Face orange shards, beard and facial tattooing/painting ( incised decoration) - felids above the eyebrows, eyes cream-coloured, headdress/covering cream-coloured, outer garment painted cream-coloured on the cuffs in a polymorphic geometric pattern (fineline technique), loincloth red-brown, red-brown rectangle on the chest, artificial nose mutilation with perforation of the nasal septum for free-hanging nose decoration (missing) Especially (1): Face tattooing/painting in incised decoration Special (2): Fineline painting (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 22,2 x 18,3 x 14,8 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 62148

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Valle de Chicama [Tal]
Hacienda de Casa Grande (near Trujillo) [Ort]
who
Moche

who
Sigmund Gildemeister - Collectors

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