Mochica blackware effigy jar with distinctive north coast type stirrup spout portraying a musician playing a conch shell trumpet
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Mochica blackware effigy jar with distinctive north coast type stirrup spout portraying a musician playing a conch shell trumpet

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Mochica blackware effigy jar with distinctive north coast type stirrup spout portraying a musician playing a conch shell trumpet, His turban like headdress and large earrings indicate high social status. The cheek may have been inlaid with shell or turquoise. Peru. Mochica. 250 650 AD. North coast of Peru.

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Werner Forman Archive/ Museum fur Volkerkunde, Berlin

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Photo12/Universal Images Group/Werner Forman

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UMG12A30_157

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