The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Male Figure (Tiki)

Male Figure (Tiki)

Date:: late 19th–mid-20th century
Geography:: Marquesas Islands
Culture:: Marquesan (Enata) people
Medium:: Whalebone
Dimensions:: H. 4 1/2 x W. 1 7/8 x D. 1 1/4 in. (11.4 x 4.8 x 3.2 cm)
Classification:: Bone/Ivory-Sculpture
Credit Line:: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1969
Accession Number:: 1978.412.827

This artwork is not on display

Provenance

[John J. Klejman, New York, until 1963]; Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York, 1963, on loan to The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1963–1969; The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1969-1978
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What
Sculpture (24,350)

Bone (6,328)

Ivory (5,389)

Figures (5,008)

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French Polynesia (25)

Marquesas Islands (12)
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