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Anthropomorphic kneeling figure with artificial facial mutilation

Form: anthropomorphic, kneeling figure, stirrup spout on the back Colour/technique: red body, red-brown engobed, polished, cream-coloured and painted black Vessel body: eyes and teeth cream-coloured, mouth and nose pathogenically deformed, black facial tattooing/painting, black body tattooing/painting, two vessels in the hands, sling on the back, feet amputated Special: facial tattooing/painting, body tattooing/painting, mouth and nose pathogenically deformed (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 20,7 cm
Depth: 18,6 cm
Width: 13 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 17843

Provenance and sources

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

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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