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Bird

Shape: Double-bodied vessel, spout on the rear body Colour/technique: red-brown and cream engobed Spout and handle: red-brown engobed Front vessel: spherical with zoomorphic application (bird's head/parrot), this also a whistling device, beak, eyes and side part of head cream-coloured, vessel body polymorphically geometrically designed (interlocking spirals/waves, red-brown and cream-coloured) rear vessel: spherical, spout slightly conical, polymorphically geometrically painted (spirals/waves) (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
musical instruments
Dimensions
Gewicht: ca. 700 g
Objektmaß: 15,1 x 22,4 x 10,3 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 598

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
who
Moche

who
Jacob Samuel Renner - Collectors

Description
Purchase

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