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Seated anthropomorphic figure, depiction of illness

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Form: anthropomorphic, kneeling figure, stirrup spout on the back Colour/technique: red body, red-brown and cream engobed, black and cream painted Stirrup spout: red-brown engobed Vessel body: face reddish brown, black facial tattoo/painting, mouth and nose pathogenically deformed, cream-coloured headgear, cream-coloured cloak, cuffs of the outer garment decorated with polymorphic geometric patterns, sling over the shoulder Special: facial tattoo/painting (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 25,9 cm
Depth: 18,2 cm
Width: 14,3 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 48072

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Chimbote
    who
    Julius van der Zypen
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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