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Catalogue number: British Museum: Oc,+.5990
Passage: Museum number
View object: Figure — British Museum (Oc,+.5990)Reported holder: British Museum
Passage: Institutional catalogue record
View object: Figure — British Museum (Oc,+.5990)Classification: figure
Passage: Object Type
View object: Figure — British Museum (Oc,+.5990)Made during: 19thC (before 1893)
Passage: Production date
View object: Figure — British Museum (Oc,+.5990)Made at: Easter Island
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View object: Figure — British Museum (Oc,+.5990)Material: wood, bone
Passage: Materials
View object: Figure — British Museum (Oc,+.5990)Description: Male figure, cut from a block of reddish brown wood. Eyes formed of rings of bone, once containing pupils of obsidian. Spine is in relief and the vertebrae are indicated by transverse lines.
Passage: Description
View object: Figure — British Museum (Oc,+.5990)Description: Height: 70 centimetres Width: 12.50 centimetres Depth: 13 centimetres
Passage: Dimensions
View object: Figure — British Museum (Oc,+.5990)Description: Presented by A.W. Franks Esq. 3 April 1893, who had purchased it from Miss Cutter.
Passage: Acquisition notes
View object: Figure — British Museum (Oc,+.5990)Description: Register slip comment: "Easter Island. cf. Report of US Nat. Mus. 1889. Thomson. pl.L."
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View object: Figure — British Museum (Oc,+.5990)