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Object Type
Museum number: Oc,LMS.103
Description: Deity? image made of sinnet, cord, red and other feathers (cock, phaethon), black hair, coir.
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Society Islands; Found/Acquired: Tahiti
Materials: fibre (?); chicken feather (?); phaethon feather; hair; coir
Dimensions: Height: 52 centimetres; Width: 9.50 centimetres; Depth: 2.50 centimetres
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 2015 9 July-19 Sept, London, SOAS Brunei Gallery, Missionaries and Idols in Polynesia
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1911
Department: Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Registration number: Oc,LMS.103
Additional IDs: CDMS number: Oc1911C27.103 (old CDMS no.); Miscellaneous number: Oc1890,Loan (originally loaned to BM in 1890 by LMS)
Conservation

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