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Portrait head

Form: anthropomorphic head, vase opening on the head Colour/technique: red body, painted white and black, partially polished VS: face and neck red, face with black painting/tattooing (heavily rubbed off), eyes white, white headdress wound under the chin and knotted there, neck with painting/tattooing RS: white headdress, red Especially: neck with painting/tattooing, face tattoo/painting (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Portrait head
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 17,9 x 13,4 x 17,5 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 32568

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Moche

who
P. Otto Zembsch (1841-05-31 - 1911-03-02) - Collectors
Ernst Wilhelm Eduard von Knorr (1840-03-08 - 1920-02-17) - Former Possessors

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