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Nasal mutilation

Form: anthropomorphic head, stirrups on the head Colour/technique: grey-reddish body, painted white, stirrups dark brown VS: face partially fragmented (mouth and chin missing), eyes and nostrils white, headdress white, felid-shaped headband above, scars on the cheeks RS: white Special: felid-shaped headband, scars on the cheeks, facial deformation (nose) (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Portrait head with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 28,1 x 13,4 x 18,8 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 14078

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
who
Moche

who
M.E. Zimmermann - Collectors

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