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Portrait head

Form: anthropomorphic head, vessel opening above the crown Colour/technique: light red body, painted white and red VS: face painted light red in the middle and red on the sides, neck light red, eyes white, white headdress wound under the chin and knotted there, red ear decoration with white beaded rim, nasal septum pierced for nose decoration (missing) RS: white headdress with red headband and knot, red neck Special: face tattoo/painting, ear jewellery, nose septum pierced for nose jewellery (missing) (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Portrait head
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 14,5 x 13,4 x 16,5 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 47869

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Trujillo [Stadt]
who
Julius van der Zypen
Moche

who
Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors

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