figure
- Museum number
- Oc,LMS.115
- Description
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Deity image made of sinnet, coir, cock feathers, barkcloth.
- Dimensions
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Height: 50 centimetres
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Width: 23 centimetres
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Depth: 3.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Registration slip description, written in 1890?:
Tahitian Group
Idol or fetish, formed of a bundle of sinnet and coir, with tufts of cock feathers at each end: the middle bound with white tapa.
66 [crossed out] (?99) Tangaroa from Mauke (?)
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See Buck, 'Arts and Crafts of the Cook Islands', p.361-2
- 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
- 1911
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,LMS.115
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1911C27.115 (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1890,Loan (originally loaned to BM in 1890 by LMS)
