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Corn deity

Form: globular, anthropo-zoomorphic application, stirrup spout on the back of the figures Colour/technique: red body, relief (corn kernels), cream engobed, painted red-brown Stirrup spout: red-brown Vessel body: cream engobed, corn kernels only red body Attachments: standing anthropo-zoomorphic figures with cream-coloured cloak cut to a point at the head, red-brown dots on the cloak, both figures with neck decoration, the left figure with feline teeth, the right figure with relief (plant) on the headdress Special: neck decoration (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 20,3 x 13,3 x 18,8 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 17833

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Moche

who
Baessler, Arthur - Collectors

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