Easter Island collection report

Classification: club staff

Description: Important for its association with Lieutenant Colin M Dundas who visited Rapa Nui for a week in 1868 as part of the crew of HMS Topaze.

Classification: male emaciated figure moai kavakava

Classification: female figure moai paapaa

Description: The latter figure is less fine than comparable pieces and may demonstrate a late example, even one of the last examples made (perhaps to order). It is nonetheless important in the understanding of figurative wood carving on the island.

Classification: naturalistic male figure moai tangata

Catalogue number: A.1880.14.1

Catalogue number: A.1894.381

Catalogue number: A.1895.373

Catalogue number: A.1954.100