British Museum collection record for Figure — British Museum (Oc1957,01.1)

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

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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