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Vessel in the shape of a woman with rattle

The vessel with a funnel-shaped neck is in the form of a seated anthropomorphic figure anthropomorphic figure adorned with ear stakes, bracelets and a necklace. and a necklace. She has her eyelids closed and carries a rattle in her right hand. rattle in her right hand. She is wrapped in her cloak and wears a shirt or anaku. She is interpreted as a religious specialist in a trance. Similar objects can be found in the Ethnological Museum Berlin from the Baessler or Gretzer collections, for example from Chepén (SMB, inv. no. V A 47577).

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Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt
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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
vessels (containers)
Dimensions
200 x 145 x 120 mm
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 31781
Other number(s)
RJM 1914/17

Provenance and sources

when
300-450
Period/Style
Early Intermediate Period; Moche III (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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