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Description: | A Hawaiian wickerwork figure of a stylised human head, with wide-open mouth defined by rows of the canine teeth of dogs. Frame covered with vegetable fibre netting, and formerly covered with feathers. The bases of some feather shafts remain, but not enough to discern their colour. There is no inlay in the oval eye sockets and both the framework and netting are damaged in places. Fox (1827) commented 'has been covered with the red feathers of the Hook-billed Red Creeper', indicating that perhaps the feathers were already missing by 1827: they had certainly gone when seen by A.W. Franks, circa 1870.
Material: cane
Material: vegetable fibre
Material: teeth | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.ethnography.63667 | Go to resource |
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