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Application: monkey making music; fineline painting: arms
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Shape: globular, zoomorphic application (monkey's head), also a whistling device, spout cut away Colour/technique: red body, red-brown and cream engobed, painted red-brown (fineline technique) Vessel body: cream engobed, painted with monkey's hands (fineline technique) RS. Monkey body with tail Application: cream-coloured engobed, monkey head, red-brown eyes, ear decoration, the forearms hold a fruit or a vessel to the mouth (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Whistling vessel
Dimensions
Height: 22,5 cm
Depth: 15,1 cm
Width: 15 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 4177
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Provenance and sources

Production
when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Trujillo
who
Moche
Collecting
who
José Mariano Macedo (1823 - 1894) - Collectors
Assignment to a curated holding:
American Archaeology

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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