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Portrait head

Form: anthropomorphic head, vessel opening above the crown Colour/technique: red body, painted white (heavily abraded) VS: entire head red, eyes and nose decoration white, red ear decoration with white dots, white headband wound under the chin and knotted there, red headband with polymorphic geometric decoration in low relief above RS: red and white, knot of the headband Special: crescent-shaped nose decoration, ear decoration (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Portrait head
Dimensions
Height: 15,2 cm
Depth: 12,7 cm
Width: 16,5 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 17937

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Chimbote
    who
    Moche
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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