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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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Cataloguing data

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

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    who
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    Jacob Samuel Renner - Collectors
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Purchase
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED

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