Dancing wand with carved faces. Used by chiefs in their war dances before the kind. They were twirled and shaken in close proximity to his face a though to frighten him. Exhibited at Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 1962.
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
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
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 #33: Nelson Gallery of Art, Atkins Museum of Fine Arts (December 18, 1961–March 13, 1962), S1973-1974 #17: San Diego Museum of Art (May 31, 1973–January 10, 1974), and S1983-1984 #53a: University of Southern California (May 18, 1984–December 3, 1984)