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figure
Object Type
figure
Museum number
Oc1931,0714.6
Description
Pebble carved with a human face coloured with red pigment.
Excavator/field collector
Field Collection by:
Sir William Lamond Allardyce
Findspot
Found/Acquired:
Vanuatu
Materials
stone
Technique
carved
pigmented
Dimensions
Height:
25 centimetres
Width:
6.50 centimetres
Depth:
8 centimetres
Location
Not on display
Exhibition history
Exhibited: 1999 3 Mar-20 Jun, BM Room 35, Creative Solutions: Conservation of the Ethnographic Collections
Acquisition name
Donated by:
Lady Elsie Elizabeth Allardyce
Acquisition date
1931
Department
Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Registration number
Oc1931,0714.6