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210 - Easter Island, Moai papa figure, wood H. 69 cm – W. 21 cm (o…
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Estimate €2,000 - €4,000
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Easter Island, Moai papa figure, wood H. 69 cm – W. 21 cm (on plinth) Provenance: former English collection. The moai papa (‘flat’ representations) form only a tiny fraction of the stereotypical anthropomorphic figures of Easter Island, whose corpus also includes rare representations of young men (moai tangata), and numerous ribbed statuettes (moai kavakava), likely figures of ancestors; the latter show clear iconographic links with statuettes that intimately blend human and animal features: stereotypical moko (lizards) and tangata manu (bird-man) birds. Alongside these figures, which adhere to more or less rigid canons, there exists a diverse array of small human statuettes with more or less caricatured features (Polynesian humour is gently fierce) as well as naturalistic-style animals: molluscs (gastropods, cephalopods, polyplacophores), fish, turtles and birds.
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About the sale AFRICAN ART – TERRACOTTA FROM THE INDUS VALLEY – PRE-COLUMBIAN ART – OCEANIAN ART – HOPI CULTURE
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Auction time 06/24/2026 at 1:30 PM
Ref. : 3358 - 308
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