Wooden image-Moai Tangata. Male figure of Toromiro with eyes of bone and obsidian. A recent copy of a more ancient figure.
Donor:
Charles Atwood Kofoid, D. L. Spencer, Miss Faurote, and William A. Setchell
Collection place:
Easter Island (Chile), Polynesia
Verbatim coll. place:
Easter Island. Albatross Expedition, through the courtesy of Prof. Alexander Agassiz and Gov. John T. Cooper, the representative of the Chilean government.
Culture or time period:
Rapa Nui
Collector:
Charles Atwood Kofoid
Collection date:
1905
Materials:
Obsidian
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Figurines and Men (male humans)
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1905
Department:
Oceania
Loans:
S1957-1960 [XXX Wellington]: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (1957–1960), S1958-1959 #4: Winfield Scott Wellington (April 3, 1959–unknown), S1961-1962 #59: Department of Anthropology (UC Davis) (April 4, 1962–October 17, 1962), S1962-1963 #31: Department of Art (UC Santa Barbara) (December 18, 1962–November 5, 1963), and S1983-1984 #53a: University of Southern California (May 18, 1984–December 3, 1984)