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Portrait head

Form: anthropomorphic head, vessel opening above the crown Colour/technique: red body, painted white VS: entire head red, eyes as well as nose and ear ornaments white, white headdress wound under the chin and knotted there, red headband in zoomorphic form (puma) above, the paws on the sides as tassels RS: red and white, four white circles Special: nose jewellery, ear jewellery, zoomorphic headband with animal paws on the sides as tassels (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Portrait head
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 18,4 x 17 x 22,8 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 17935

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Moche

who
Baessler, Arthur - Collectors

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