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Fork neck vessel

The black fork-necked vessel has a stand. Two small birds were applied to the underside of the neck of the fork and in the belly/shoulder area and another bird applied to the spout. The Ethnological Museum Berlin owns a similar vessel from the Baessler Collection (SMB, inv. no. V A 18316)

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Data Provider
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt
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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Chimú
Object type
vessels (containers)
Dimensions
253 x 173 x 138 mm
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 31735
Other number(s)
RJM 1914/17

Provenance and sources

when
between 1000-1470
Period/Style
Late Intermediate Period; Chimú (style)
where
Peru
America -> South America -> Peru -> Coast (north) -> Pacasmayo (Place)

who
José Mariano Macedo (1823 - 1894)

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

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