- Museum number
- Oc,LMS.223
- Description
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Temple image figure made of wood (metrosideros sp), probably represents Ku-ka’ili- moku the god of war.
- Production date
- 18thC(late)-19thC(early) (before 1822)
- Dimensions
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Height: 128.50 centimetres
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Weight: 135 kilograms (Approximately)
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Width: 38 centimetres
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Depth: 30 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- LMS slip:
LMS Cat 45. Taken with permisson of the Governor Kuakene from the walls of an ancient Marae at Kairnna Hawaii, by the Deputation.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1975 - 1985 12 Dec-23 Jun, London, BM, Museum of Mankind, Hawaii
1990 20 Oct-9 Dec, Japan, Tokyo, Setagaya Art Museum, Treasures of the British Museum, cat. no.227
1991 5 Jan-20 Feb, Japan, Yamaguchi, Prefectural Museum of Art, Treasures of the British Museum, cat. no.227
1991 9 Mar-7 May, Japan, Osaka, National Museum of Art, Treasures of the British Museum, cat. no.227
1997-1998 25 Sep-27 Jan, Osaka, National Museum of Ethnology, Images of Other Cultures
1998 11 Feb-12 Apr, Tokyo, Setagaya Art Museum, Images of Other Cultures
2006-2007 28 Sept-7 Jan, London, BM, Power and Taboo
2015-2016 4 Dec - 03 Jul, National Museum of Singapore, Treasures of the World's Cultures
2017-2018 10 Nov-18 Feb, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS), Mumbai, India, India and the World: A History in Nine Stories
2018, 6 May- 30 June, National Museum, New Delhi, India and the World: A History in Nine Stories
- Acquisition date
- 1911
- Acquisition notes
- Collected by the London Missionary Society in 1822
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,LMS.223
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1911C27.223 (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1890,Loan (originally loaned to BM in 1890 by LMS)
