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

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Moche

who
Baessler, Arthur - Collectors

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