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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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Cataloguing data

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

Provenance and sources

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

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