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Portrait head: laughing

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Form: anthropomorphic head, vessel opening on the head Colour/technique: black-grey body, unpainted Vessel body: eyes closed, mouth grinning (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Portrait head
Dimensions
Height: 12,5 cm
Depth: 12,7 cm
Width: 12 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 17237

Provenance and sources

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

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