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Carved female human figure (moai paepae)
Object Number 95-2-70/47752
Display Title Carved female human figure (moai paepae)
Descriptions
Indigenous Term moai paepae
Object Description Carved female human figure (moai paepae). Right eye is missing and an octopus glyph is carved on top of the head.
Inventory Description Sculpture, carved standing female, inlay eye, curvilinear designed head, burnish
Classification
  • Sculpture
Department Ethnographic
Date Ca. 1850
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Chile / Rapa Nui
Materials Wood Shell Obsidian Bone Stain?
Dimensions Overall: 56 × 14 × 7 cm (22 1/16 × 5 1/2 × 2 3/4 in.) Weight: 854 g (0.854 kg)
Quantity 1
Label on object 47752
Credit Line Gift of William L. R. Gifford, 1895
Provenance
Collector Humphry A. Gifford (ca. 1879)
Collector New Bedford whaler (ca. 1845)
Donor Mr. William L. R. Gifford (1895)

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