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Vessel with snake
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The belly of the black vessel is entwined with a snake. Comparable depictions can be seen in the Ethnological Museum Berlin on fork-necked vessels from the Chimú, among others from the Gretzer Collection (SMB, inv. no. V A 47949).

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Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt
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Cultural attribution
Chimú
Object type
vessels (containers)
Dimensions
140 mm
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 31767
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)

when
1907
who
Julius van der Zypen (1842 - 1907) - Funders
Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin - Recipients

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