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Vessel in the shape of a person with weapons

The vessel with a funnel-shaped neck is in the form of an anthropomorphic figure holding a round shield in his right hand and a club in his left. left a club. It is decorated with ear plugs. The headdress consists of a ring or headband with the depiction of a felid (puma?). Comparable vessels from the Gretzer Collection from Chimbote can be found in the Ethnological Museum in Berlin (SMB, inv. no. VIII E 3897, V A 17765).

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Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt
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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
vessels (containers)
Dimensions
285 x 215 x 165 mm
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 31795
Other number(s)
RJM 1914/17

Provenance and sources

when
300-750
Period/Style
Early Intermediate Period - Middle Horizon; Moche III-IV (style)
where
Peru
America -> South America -> Peru -> Coast (north) -> Chepén (place)

when
1907
who
Julius van der Zypen (1842 - 1907) - Funders

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