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Portrait head

Shape: anthropomorphic head, stirrup spout above the crown Colour/technique: light red body, engobed white and dark brown, painted dark brown and black Stirrup spout: white VS: Face light red in the centre and dark brown stripe-shaped face painting/tattooing on the sides, black face painting/tattooing (birds) on the chin, scars above the lips, eyes white, ear decoration (pegs), headdress white with brown edges, black painting/tattooing (flies) on the neck Special: face tattooing/painting, black painting/tattooing (flies) on the neck, scars (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Portrait head with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 30,4 cm
Depth: 20,4 cm
Width: 17,6 cm
Weight: 0,83 kg
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 32567

Provenance and sources

Production
when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Moche
Collecting
who
P. Otto Zembsch (1841-05-31 - 1911-03-02) - Collectors
Ernst Wilhelm Eduard von Knorr (1840-03-08 - 1920-02-17) - Former Possessors
Change of legal title:
Acquisition
Description
Purchase from Ernst Wilhelm Eduard von Knorr in 1911
Assignment to a curated holding:
American Archaeology

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