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Fineline painting: polymorphic geometric

Form: anthropomorphic head, stapes spout above the crown Colour/technique: red body, painted and polished white and red Stirrup spout: white VS: face painted red on the sides and white in the centre and polished, eyes, nose and ear decoration white, white headdress on top red-brown painting (polymorphic geometric) knotted under the chin, nasal septum pierced for jewellery (missing) RS: white, field in the centre painted in fineline technique Special: ear ornaments, nose ornaments, nasal septum pierced Special: headdress painted in fineline technique (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Portrait head with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Gewicht: 0,83 kg
Objektmaß: 29,3 x 17,9 x 17,9 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 17920

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Moche

who
Baessler, Arthur - Collectors

Description
Donation 1900

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