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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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