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Fox head

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Form: zoomorphic head (fox?), vessel opening on the head Colour/technique: red body, cream engobed, painted black and red-brown Vessel body: face red body, eyes and teeth cream, black neck and face tattooing/painting, head covering attached under the chin RS: part of the headdress Special: face tattooing/painting (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Head vessel
Dimensions
Height: 16 cm
Depth: 17,4 cm
Width: 16,2 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18086

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Chimbote
    who
    Moche
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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