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Catalogue number: British Museum: Oc1957,01.1
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View object: Figure — British Museum (Oc1957,01.1)Reported holder: British Museum
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View object: Figure — British Museum (Oc1957,01.1)Classification: figure
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View object: Figure — British Museum (Oc1957,01.1)Made at: Easter Island
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View object: Figure — British Museum (Oc1957,01.1)Material: wood, obsidian, bone, acrylic (?)
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View object: Figure — British Museum (Oc1957,01.1)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.
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View object: Figure — British Museum (Oc1957,01.1)Description: Height: 27 centimetres Width: 7 centimetres Depth: 7.50 centimetres
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View object: Figure — British Museum (Oc1957,01.1)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
View object: Figure — British Museum (Oc1957,01.1)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.'
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View object: Figure — British Museum (Oc1957,01.1)