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Portrait head

Form: anthropomorphic head, vessel opening above the crown Colour/technique: light red body, painted white, reddish brown and red VS: face painted light red in the middle and red on the sides, eyes white, white headdress wound under the chin and knotted there, headband in zoomorphic form (puma head) above, two discs painted white and reddish brown on the sides of the head, red ear decoration with white cross RS: white headgear (heavily worn) with knots Special: face tattoo/painting, ear jewellery, zoomorphic headband (puma head), two round decorative discs on the headband (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Portrait head
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 20 x 15,8 x 19,5 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 48035

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Julius van der Zypen
Moche

who
Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors

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