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Form: anthropomorphic head, stirrup spout above the crown (broken off) Colour/technique: light red body, painted white and dark red, polished, stirrup spout: dark red VS: face and neck light red, eyes and nostrils white, white headgear wrapped around the chin and knotted there, facial tattooing/painting, ear decoration, deepening for jewellery inlay in the earlobe RS: white and light red in the neck area Special: facial tattooing/painting, ear decoration, deepening for jewellery inlay in the earlobe (missing) (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Portrait head
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 18,1 x 15 x 15 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 17900

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Moche

who
Baessler, Arthur - Collectors

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED

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