AN EASTER ISLAND MALE FIGURE, moai kavakava, of curved form, standing with the arms free of the body and the hands on the thighs, fine raised arcs below the shoulders, the prominent chest and the back with incised ribs and notched spine, the long face with small beard, one eye inlaid with circlet of fish bone about an obsidian disc, the other inlaid with two wood circlets restored), hatched eyebrows, incised teeth in the upturned mouth, the long earlobes with disc ear ornaments, the cranial glyph carved as a double cockerel, the eyes inlaid with obsidian chips, a four-pointed star and dotted circlet to the crown, dark glossy patina, one arm repaired, the other with forearm missing, phallus and feet damaged, mid 19th century

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AN EASTER ISLAND MALE FIGURE, moai kavakava, of curved form, standing with the arms free of the body and the hands on the thighs, fine raised arcs below the shoulders, the prominent chest and the back with incised ribs and notched spine, the long face with small beard, one eye inlaid with circlet of fish bone about an obsidian disc, the other inlaid with two wood circlets restored), hatched eyebrows, incised teeth in the upturned mouth, the long earlobes with disc ear ornaments, the cranial glyph carved as a double cockerel, the eyes inlaid with obsidian chips, a four-pointed star and dotted circlet to the crown, dark glossy patina, one arm repaired, the other with forearm missing, phallus and feet damaged, mid 19th century
40cm. high

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