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Portrait head

Form: anthropomorphic head, vascular opening above the crown Colour/technique: pale red body, painted white and black VS: face and neck pale red, eyes and nose and ear ornaments white, white headdress wound under the chin and knotted there, large tassels on the sides of the head, black facial tattooing/painting RS: white headdress and red head Special: nose ornament, ear ornaments, headband with tassels on the sides (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Portrait head
Dimensions
Height: 16,3 cm
Depth: 21 cm
Width: 13,5 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 17928

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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