A small wooden carving of a squatting figure with its knees drawn up to its body, resting its elbows on its knees and its chin on the ends of its arms. The figure is carved on a rounded oval base, and has circular carved eyes on its face. The brow of the figure is pronounced on its smooth, very narrow head. There is a line carved across the figure's shoulders. In the centre of this line there is a small half-circle above a "Y" shaped marking. each of the figure's limbs has a carved outline which ends in a "swirl" shape on either side of the figure's body.

• Narrative

  From the collection of Sister Twyford or Miss J. Pearce (Australia), who had served as missionaries in the Trobriand Islands in the 1920s and Dobu Island in the 1930s.

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• Type of Item figure
• Culture Trobriand
• Material ebony wood
• Measurements height 5.9 cm, width 0.9 cm, depth 1.9 cm (overall)

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• Previous Owner Ingeborg Marshall
• Received from Ingeborg Marshall

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• Made in Kiriwina Islands

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• Creation Date before 1940
• Collection Date between 1920 and 1940
• Ownership Date before November 18, 2014
• Acquisition Date on November 18, 2014

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• Item Classes carvings & sculpture
• Condition good
• Accession Number 3092/0038