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Portrait head

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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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Cataloguing data

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

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Chimbote
    who
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    P. Otto Zembsch (1841-05-31 - 1911-03-02) - Collectors
    Ernst Wilhelm Eduard von Knorr (1840-03-08 - 1920-02-17) - Former Possessors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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