prmlogo2Cook-Voyage Collections
at the Pitt Rivers Museum

1886.1.1417

PRM0001349735179Head-rest, tuarua, of wood, from the Society Islands (probably Tahiti); part of the Forster collection (Forster 30; 1886.1.1417)

Headrest carved from a single piece of wood. The rectangular top is concave, and the legs have a oval profile. The legs at each end are connected by a crossbar.


 
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