Figure — British Museum (Oc1957,01.1)

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Autoría de la fuente: British Museum

• Número de catálogo: British Museum: Oc1957,01.1

  Pasaje: Museum number

• Custodia informada: British Museum

  Pasaje: Institutional catalogue record

• Clasificación: figure

  Pasaje: Object Type

• Hecho en: Easter Island

  Pasaje: Production place

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

  Pasaje: Materials

• Descripción: 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.

  Pasaje: Description

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

  Pasaje: Dimensions

• Descripción: 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.

  Pasaje: Acquisition notes

• Descripción: 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.'

  Pasaje: Curator's comments

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