prmlogo2Cook-Voyage Collections
at the Pitt Rivers Museum

1886.1.1423

PRM0001324545179Figure, ti′i, of wood, from the Society Islands (probably Tahiti); part of the Forster collection (Forster 38; 1886.1.1423)

Male figure carved from heavy wood, with straight shoulders and large ears. The damage to the feet suggests that the figure has been cut from a larger piece of wood, and the figure may originally have been on a canoe prow

 

  PRM00013245351791886.1.1423 and 1886.1.1424
PRM0001309225179Front of figure (with scale)
PRM0001309245179Side of figure (with scale)
PRM0001309255179Back of figure (with scale)
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