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Portrait head with stirrup spout

Form: anthropomorphic head, stirrup spout above the crown Colour/technique: light red body, painted white and partially polished Stirrup spout: white VS: face and neck light red, eyes white with light red pupils, white headdress wound under the chin on the head with knot or tassel, ear decoration white, nasal septum pierced for nose decoration (missing) RS: white and red headdress Special: nasal septum pierced for nose decoration (missing), ear decoration (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Portrait head with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 31 cm
Depth: 19,1 cm
Width: 16,1 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 48029

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Chimbote
    who
    Julius van der Zypen
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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