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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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Cataloguing data

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

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Chimbote
    who
    Moche
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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