Figure — British Museum (Oc1957,01.1)

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Source author: British Museum

• Catalogue number: British Museum: Oc1957,01.1

  Passage: Museum number

• Reported holder: British Museum

  Passage: Institutional catalogue record

• Classification: figure

  Passage: Object Type

• Made at: Easter Island

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• Material: wood, obsidian, bone, acrylic (?)

  Passage: Materials

• Description: Wood male figure with obsidian eyes. One of the eyes is set in a bone (?) ring and the other in plasticene. The inside of the mouth is coloured red. Prominent belly.

  Passage: Description

• Description: Height: 27 centimetres Width: 7 centimetres Depth: 7.50 centimetres

  Passage: Dimensions

• Description: Given in 1957 by Miss Mary Chambers of Rothwell, Northamptonshire, through the Kettering Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery. It is not recorded how she obtained it.

  Passage: Acquisition notes

• Description: Register 1957 Wood male figure; eyes of obsidian, one set in a bone(?) ring, the other in plasticene; inside of mouth coloured red. EASTER I. Heyerdahl 1977:277: 'The carving ... is probably of fairly recent manufacture.'

  Passage: Curator's comments

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Reference: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/1613863088