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Item number 3092/33 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.

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Description

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 base which has an uneven line of geometric triangles running around it, and circular carved eyes on its face. Its mouth has a row of triangular teeth carved into it. The brow of the figure is pronounced on its smooth rounded head. A basket or large bowl is caved on top of its head with a pattern of triangles and curves around the rim. A similar pattern of geometric triangles carved along the figure's limbs on either side of the body, each side meeting along the figure's spine with a bull's-eye design at the top and bottom of its back. The carved lines are filled in with white lime.

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.