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Application: Bird's head

Form: two-part vessel, both parts spherical, anthropomorphic appliqué on the larger, stirrup spout on the back of the appliqué figure Colour/technique: red body, orange and cream engobed Stirrup spout: red body Front body: globular, horizontally divided into two parts, lower part engobed in cream colour, upper part engobed in orange colour, applied anthropomorphic head, the eyes and mouth are holes, two further holes on the side of the head Rear vessel body: globular, engobed in cream colour (heavily abraded) (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Pipe with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 17,4 x 10,7 x 16,7 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 49704

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Pachacámac
who
Julius van der Zypen
Moche

who
Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors

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