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Anthropo-zoomorphic figure in the mountains; Fineline Painting: polymorphic geometric

Form: anthropomorphic, standing figure surrounded by six mountain peaks, spout on the back of the figure (broken off) Colour/technique: grey body, grey-beige engobed, painted red-brown (fineline technique) Vessel body: red-brown face, ear ornaments, headdress/covering, outer garment with red-brown dots, arm ornaments, a club in the hands Special: two snakes are coiled around the mountain peaks painted with plants, their heads resting on the figure's headdress (broken off) RS: the snake's body and phytomorphic painting (rubbed off) (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 17,5 x 16,2 x 11,4 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 17777

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Moche

who
Baessler, Arthur - Collectors

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