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Portrait head

Form: anthropomorphic head, vessel opening on top of the head, completed with plaster, on wooden base Colour/technique: red body, painted white (heavily abraded) VS: face and neck red, eyes white, white headgear, earlobe with deepening for jewellery inlay (missing), nasal septum pierced for nose decoration (missing) RS: white headdress with knot Especially: earlobes with depression for jewellery inlay (missing), nasal septum pierced for nose jewellery (missing) (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Portrait head
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 14,5 x 16,8 x 15 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 32571

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Moche

who
P. Otto Zembsch (1841-05-31 - 1911-03-02) - Collectors
Ernst Wilhelm Eduard von Knorr (1840-03-08 - 1920-02-17) - Former Possessors

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