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Bird; Fineline Painting: Plumage

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Form: Double-bodied vessel, stirrup spout (damaged) Colour/technique: red body, red-brown and cream engobed, painted red-brown (fineline technique) Spout and handle: red-brown engobed Front vessel: spherical with zoomorphic application (bird's head/parrot), this also a whistling device, beak, eyes and side of head cream-coloured, vessel body designed as bird's plumage rear vessel: spherical, engobed cream-coloured, frieze of red-brown triangles running around the base of the stirrup (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
musical instruments
Dimensions
Weight: 0,894 kg
Height: 25 cm
Depth: 12,7 cm
Width: 22,5 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 62140

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    who
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    Sigmund Gildemeister - Collectors
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Purchase 1925
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED

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