Corn deity | Photographer: Peter Jacob
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Corn deity
Shape: spherical with stand ring, stirrup spout on the back Colour/technique: light red body, relief (anthropomorphic head and corn kernels), cream engobed, like and red-brown painted Stirrup spout: red-brown and cream engobed Vessel body: cream-coloured engobed, corn kernels arranged in a spiral enclose an anthropomorphic face with red-brown facial tattooing/painting Special: facial tattooing/painting (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)
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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 23,9 x 11 x 16,9 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 62145
Provenance and sources
when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Valle de Chicama [Tal]
Hacienda de Casa Grande (near Trujillo) [Ort]
who
Moche
who
Sigmund Gildemeister - Collectors
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