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- Museum number
- Oc,LMS.221
- Description
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God image made of feathers and basketry; a basketry frame covered with olona (Touchardia latifolia) fibre netting with attached feathers. The feathers are predominantly red (from the 'i'iwi bird), with yellow and black detail (from 'o'o or mamo birds). The eyes are made of pearl-shell with wooden pegs attached as pupils, and the teeth are those of dogs.
- Production date
- 18thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 135 centimetres (crate)
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Width: 51 centimetres (crate)
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Depth: 37 centimetres (crate)
- Curator's comments
- See A.L. Kaeppler, 'Tracing the History of Hawaiian Cook Voyage Artefacts in the Museum of Mankind' in T.C. Mitchell (ed), Captain Cook and the South Pacific, British Museum Yearbook 3, British Museum Publications Ltd, 1979, pp.176-177 and A.L. Kaeppler, 'Genealogy and disrespect: A study of symbolism in Hawaiian images' in Res 3, Spring 1982, p. 104
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1975 – 1985 12 Dec-23 Jun, London, BM, Museum of Mankind, Hawaii
1979 – 1980 15 Feb-29 Sept, London, BM, Museum of Mankind, Captain Cook in the South Seas (temporarily removed from Museum of Mankind, Hawaii exhibition 1975 – 1985)
- Acquisition date
- 1911
- Acquisition notes
- Adrienne Kaeppler writes: 'Accession information from London Missionary Society notes that it was in the Leverian Museum'. If so, it would mean it was collected on Cook's third voyage (1776-1780). "Artificial Curiosities....", Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press, 1978, p.53, item 7.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,LMS.221
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1911C27.221 (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1890,Loan (originally loaned to BM in 1890 by LMS)