Carved Wooden Idol
date: label: Accession Date
content: 12 Jan 1921
name: label: Donor Name
content: Adm John V. Bleecker
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Carved from hard, dark brown wood, the upper portion of the figure stained black. Nude figure very well carved, has chin whiskers and wears helmet. Eyes are of bone set in. Very old. Head is turned over left shoulder. Is this on account of thickness of wood from which carving was made? Excellent and rare specimen. This is almost certainly a derivative, if not an actual example, of Easter Island figurines. See British Museum Handbook. Also Cat. #3823, a similar figurine from Easter Island collected by the Wilkes Exp. -JW 4/27/(19)42 Undoubtedly Easter Island. Miss Bleecker's letter of 1920 (see Accession papers) states the figure 'I am told was brought to this country between 1850 and 1860.', so attribution to Hawaii must be due to faulty memory on her part. -SR (Saul Riesenberg) 7/29/(19)60." BW Neg. #93-16090 is front view of male figure with head turned to left. BW Neg. #93-16256 is detail view of right side of head of figure. BW Neg. #93-16088 is back view of figure. BW Neg. #93-16257 is detail view of left side of head of figure. BW Neg. #93-16089 is view of left side of figure showing full face view of head. BW Neg. #93-16258 is detail view of left side of figure showing full face view of head. BW Neg. #93-16259 is view of top of figure's head. BW Neg. #93-15255 is right side view of figure showing back view of head (figure's head is turned to left.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 065907
label: USNM Number
content: E315748-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure