figure
- Museum number
- Oc.9940
- Description
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Deity figure (fisherman's) made of curved strips of coconut leaf tied together near the middle with coconut fibre cord.
- Dimensions
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Height: 42 centimetres
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Width: 5.50 centimetres
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Depth: 3.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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One of two items numbered Christy 9940. (Other is bracelet from Peru).
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Mangaia, Hervey Islands.
Topmost Leaf of cocoa nut tree, of a dull sage green, tied with a piece of sinnet. "The fisherman's god at Mangaia, carried in the forepart of every canoe the sinnet is sacred, tied by the priest."
"From Mangaia"
[drawing]
L. 17in
9940'
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2015 9 July-19 Sept, London, SOAS Brunei Gallery, Missionaries and Idols in Polynesia
- Acquisition date
- 1876
- Acquisition notes
- Pres. by Aug. W. Franks Esq. November 18 1876 (Rev W. Wyatt Gill.)
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc.9940
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1876C1.19940 (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1876C1118.7
