Carved Wooden Figure
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1840
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: CARVED WOODEN FIGURE OF A MALE OF SPARSE BODY, DISTENDED ABDOMEN, CHEST AND RIBS CARVED IN HIGH RELIEF. THE HEAD AND EYEBROWS ARE CARVED IN CURVILINEAR DESIGN, FACE SHOWS DEEP, HOLLOW, EYE SOCKETS AND THE CHIN EXTENDS TO A SMALL KNOB. THIS TYPICAL EASTER ISLAND FIGURE WAS PURCHASED, OR OBTAINED AS A GIFT, AT THE BAY OF ISLANDS, NEW ZEALAND. THIS OBJECT WAS ON PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN THE PACIFIC HALL, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY [exhibit dismantled in 2004]. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SPARSE BODY FORM, DISTENDED ABDOMEN, CHEST ACCENTUATED WITH THE RIBS CARVED IN RELIEF. ARMS HANGING AND RESTING AGAINST THE OUTSIDE OF THIGHS. DEEP HOLLOW EYES SOCKETS. HEAD AND EYEBROWS CARVED IN CURVILINEAR DESIGNS. BUT NOT THE EARS WHICH ARE ONLY HOLES IN HEAD. CHIN IS ALSO EXTENED INTO A SMALL KNOB. LEFT SHOULDER IS DAMAGED AND MUCH WOOD BORER DAMAGE. FEB. 1959 THE DAMAGES WERE RESTORED IN THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL LAB."
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 7 p. 48, in "Splendid Isolation: Art of Easter Island" by Eric Kjellgren, Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 2001, and identified there as a male ribbed figure (moai kavakava). BW Neg. #93-16077 is front view of figure. BW Neg. #93-16086 is detail view of front of figure head and shoulders. BW Neg. # 93-16078 is left profile view. BW Neg. #93-16083 is detail view of left profile of head and shoulders. BW Neg. #93-16085 is detail right 3/4 view of head and shoulders. BW Neg. #93-16087 is right profile view. BW Neg. #93-16084 is detail view of right profile of head and shoulders. BW Neg. #93-16079 is back view. BW Neg. #93-16081 is detail view of head and upper back. BW Neg. #93-16080 is detail view of back of head. BW Neg. #93-16082 is detail view of top of head.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Dec 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui) / Bay of Islands, Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile / New Zealand (Aotearoa), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Easter Islander (Rapanui)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3823-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 26 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 6 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 4.5 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 26 cm