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Wooden image
Object Number 05-2-70/64846
Display Title Wooden image
Descriptions
Inventory Description Sculpture, carved wood, standing human male, inlaid bone and obsidian eyes
Classification
  • Sculpture
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1905
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Chile / Rapa Nui
Materials Wood, Bone, Obsidian
Dimensions Overall: 56.5 x 10.6 x 10.8 cm (22 1/4 x 4 3/16 x 4 1/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 64846
Provenance
Collector Alexander Agassiz (1904-1905)
Expedition Albatross Expedition (1904-1905)
Donor Alexander Agassiz (05/1905)

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