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Male ancestral image (moai kavakava)
Object Number 26-52-70/D2687
Display Title Male ancestral image (moai kavakava)
Descriptions
Indigenous Term Moai kavakava
Inventory Description Sculpture, carved standing male, inlay bone and stone eye, protruding ribs
Classification
  • Sculpture
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1926
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Chile / Rapa Nui
Materials Wood, Bone, Obsidian
Dimensions Overall: 42.1 x 6.5 x 5.4 cm (16 9/16 x 2 9/16 x 2 1/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object D-2687
Provenance
Intermediary Dr. Thomas Barbour (05/1926)
Donor Society of India Wharf Rats of Boston (05/1926)

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