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Portrait head

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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Cataloguing data

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

Provenance and sources

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

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