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THBRapa Nui Male Figure, Moai Kavakava
Lot 33
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Bonhams Skinner
274 Cedar Hill Street
Marlborough, MA 01752
United States
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Dec 17, 2021
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This December, the American Indian & Tribal Art sales are twofold: an online sale on view in our Marlborough gallery and a live sale at the Boston Gallery with preview times available by appointment. Bonhams Skinner bidsquare@bonhamsskinner.com
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- Lot Description
Rapa Nui Male Figure, Moai Kavakava, Easter Island, 19th century, standing on small rounded feet with incised toes and projecting ankle bones beneath attenuated bent legs and a prominent phallus, the curving torso with projecting lower abdomen and prominent rib cage and spinal column - a series of ridges interrupted by notches running from the buttocks to the nape of the neck - beneath a suspension hole pierced through, surmounted by a large head with inset shell and obsidian eyes beneath heavy arched brows incised with a chevron motif, and framed by elongated pendant ears with incised linear decoration, the rounded crown finely incised with an octopus-like creature toward the rear, dark brown patina, with blacking on the head, with inventory number "56.13," painted on the bottom of the left foot, ht. 18 in.
Provenance: Private collection, Boston, Massachusetts; Skinner, Boston, January 6, 2001, Lot 114; Private collection, Newton, Massachusetts; Ex-collection Nelson A. Rockefeller, collection of the Museum of Primitive Art, New York.
Exhibitions: Art Institute of Chicago, 1957; Museum of Primitive Art, 1957, 1961, 1965.
Literature: Corpus, Rapa Nui, Francois Dederen, 2014, Number 369, p. 548.Condition
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