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Portrait head

Form: anthropomorphic head, spout missing Colour/technique: red body, engobed and painted white and reddish brown VS: face dark red, eyes and ear ornaments white, headdress white, above dark red forehead firing with polymorphic geometric decoration RS: red neck, white headdress hanging down a little Special: ear ornaments (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Portrait head
Dimensions
Height: 15,7 cm
Depth: 12,6 cm
Width: 13,8 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 17894

Provenance and sources

Production
when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Moche
Collecting
who
Baessler, Arthur - Collectors
Assignment to a curated holding:
American Archaeology

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