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Anthropomorphic figure with child

Form: anthropomorphic, standing figure with child on the arm, spout on the back (broken off) Colour/technique: red body, red-brown and cream engobed, incised decoration Vessel body: head cream engobed, folds, red-brown facial tattooing/painting, mouth tapered for whistling, headdress/covering, head with several openings (at the same time whistling device?), upper garment cream-coloured with red-brown stripes and polymorphic geometric painting (fineline technique), child engobed in red-brown, holding a vessel in her right hand Especially: fineline painting (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Whistling vessel
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 18,2 x 10,2 x 11,4 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 48201

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Casma
who
Julius van der Zypen
Moche

who
Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors

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