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Corn deity

Shape: spherical, conical spout at the top Colour/technique: red body, relief (anthropo-zoomorphic head and corncob), painted white Spout: red body unpainted Vessel body: the corncobs depicted in white, the anthropo-zoomorphic head with felid teeth, the headdress like the end of a corncob (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel
Dimensions
Height: 26,4 cm
Depth: 16,6 cm
Width: 16,7 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 17817

Provenance and sources

Production
when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Moche
Collecting
who
Baessler, Arthur - Collectors
Assignment to a curated holding:
American Archaeology

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