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Description: | Small holes CULT unknown Austral Islands Polynesia The god image has a head with triangular ears and a lozenge shaped hole through the centre. Its flattened shaft is decorated with 8 horizontal zig-zags on the top part of the shaft.
Adrienne Kaeppler has identified this carved object as a probable Captain Cook artefact, given to the Hunterian by Captain King. Although King was only present on Cook's last voyage, he is thought to have obtained artefacts from the other two. Kaeppler states that the object may be from Rurutu, Tubuai, the Cook Islands or collected in Tahiti. It may also be one of the 'several idols, carved in wood' mentioned by Laskey. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | JEN : DEITY : CEREMONIAL : DCOOK : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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