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Death mask

Data Provider
Ethnologisches Museum Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Object type
Death mask
Dimensions
Width: 6,5 cm
Height: 26,8 cm
Depth: 9,8 cm
Width: 13 cm
Weight: 0,45 kg
Material/Technique
Wood, Cotton (white / coloured), Wool (dark brown), Plant fibre, white, with grey colouring agent (ash?), Colour
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 39979

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Peru
    Pachacámac
    who
    Julius van der Zypen
  • Collecting
    who
    Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Donation 1907
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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