Stone Figure Head And Shoulders
date: label: Accession Date
content: 4 May 1887
label: Collection Date
content: 18 Dec 1886 to 31 Dec 1886
name: label: Collector
content: Maj. William J. Thomson
label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Department of the Navy
label: Expedition
content: Mohican Survey of Easter Island
label: Vessel
content: U.S.S. Mohican
notes: label: Notes
content: Note re photos: Neg. #s 2000-10620 and 21 are view of front of head. Neg. #s 2000-10622 and 23 are view of right profile. Neg. #s 2000-10624 and 25 are view of left profile. According to the Easter Island Statue Project, this head of a stone figure (moai) was collected for the Smithsonian in 1886 from a rare inland ceremonial site called "Ahu O'Pepe". It is carved of consolidated volcanic ash or volcanic tuff (from the quarry Rano Raraku). This moai is Easter Island Statue Project reference # SI-WDC-002. See pp. 27-28 in "Changing Faces: Rapa Nui Statues in the Social Landscape" by Jo Anne Van Tilburg, in Splendid Isolation: Art of Easter Island by Eric Kjelgren, Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 2001. Head is also illus. in Fig. 1, p. 43 of the same book and discussed on p. 42.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Ahu O'Pepe, 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: 019025
label: USNM Number
content: E128370-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 1 m
label: Width - Object
content: 1 m
label: Height - Object
content: 0.69 m
label: Height - Object
content: 119.4 cm