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Standing anthropo-zoomorphic figure (owl)

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Form: anthropo-zoomorphic, standing figure (owl), spout on the head Colour/technique: red body, painted white Spout: red body with vertical stripes Vessel body: eyes and chin white, neck ornament, arm ornament, club and shield in the hands, diagonal white stripes as plumage Special: neck ornament, arm ornament (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel
Dimensions
Height: 19 cm
Depth: 11 cm
Width: 11,2 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 31538

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    who
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    Max Buggisch - Former Possessors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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