Figure Item Number: 3092/38 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
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.
Item History
- Made in Kiriwina Islands, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea before 1940
- Collected between 1920 and 1940
- Owned by Ingeborg Marshall before November 18, 2014
- Received from Ingeborg Marshall (Donor) on November 18, 2014
What
- Name
- Figure
- Identification Number
- 3092/38
- Type of Item
- figure
- Material
- ebony wood
- Overall
- height 5.9 cm, width 0.9 cm, depth 1.9 cm
Who
- Culture
- Trobriand
- Previous Owner
- Ingeborg Marshall
- Received from
- Ingeborg Marshall (Donor)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Kiriwina Islands, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea
When
- Creation Date
- before 1940
- Collection Date
- between 1920 and 1940
- Ownership Date
- before November 18, 2014
- Acquisition Date
- on November 18, 2014
Other
- Item Classes
- carvings & sculpture
- Condition
- good
- Accession Number
- 3092/0038