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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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Cataloguing data

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

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Valle de Chicama
    Hacienda de Casa Grande (near Trujillo)
    who
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    Sigmund Gildemeister - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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