Lot 45
45
AN EASTER ISLAND MALE FIGURE, moai kavakava, of emaciated form, standing with the arms carved free of the body and hands placed on the thighs, the head with hatched brows, the eyes with inset obsidian discs within bone circlets (one missing), tufted beard, long ear lobes, the body with clavicle ridge, five curved ribs and undecorated spine, left foot chipped, glossy brown patina

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AN EASTER ISLAND MALE FIGURE, moai kavakava, of emaciated form, standing with the arms carved free of the body and hands placed on the thighs, the head with hatched brows, the eyes with inset obsidian discs within bone circlets (one missing), tufted beard, long ear lobes, the body with clavicle ridge, five curved ribs and undecorated spine, left foot chipped, glossy brown patina
37cm. high

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Cf. a very similar figure presented by Roland Bonaparte to the Trocadéro Museum (now the Musée de l'Homme) in Paris in 1890

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