Exhibition (Maudslay Gallery)
EXH.2018.4 | Pacific Currents
Event Date
Author: Remke Velden

Loan (Exhibition)
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UEA, Norwich, October 15 2016- February 12 2017, Fiji: Art and Life in the Pacific
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Display)
Exhibited in 'The Proper Study of Mankind: Great Anthropological Collections in Cambridge' (known at MAA as the 'Centenary Exhibition') at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 12 March - 06 May 1984.
Event Date 12/2/1984
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (CMS Description)
Figure of Nude Woman. Carved in cachalot ivory and Sperm Whale tooth. Small broken loop on top of head; Broken
Event Date 21/7/1987
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
This computer card is an amalgamation. There is an uninitialled note on reverse of card which reads: " Locality of origin uncertain reputed Fiji" Broken loop on top of head shows it was worn suspended as a pendant or part of necklace. Fine old piece;
Event Date 21/7/1987
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Report of the Board of Archaeological and Anthropological Studies [3 March 1926], List of Accessions from 1 January to 31 December 1925: 'Clarke, Mr L. C. G.: […] cachalot tooth, figure of woman, Fiji (25. 336)' (1926:3).
Event Date 3/10/2012
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (CMS Description)
Small female figure carved from a single piece of whale ivory. Standing, straight legs and arms along the body. One foot missing, the other damaged. Fragments of a small hook on the top of the head, slightly to the right. A blue mark on the leg with the foot missing (might have been left by a copper wire?). The front of the figure is light cream in colour while the back is a rich honey colour. '25.336' inscribed in black ink twice on the same side: once on the side of the buttocks, and on the waist. Possibly of Tongan origins.
Event Date 3/10/2012
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue card 1 reads [handwritten in black ink:] '25.336 Fiji. Figure of nude wowan carved in cachalot ivory - fine old piece. Small broken loop on top of head shows it was worn suspended as pendant or part of necklace. Purchased by Donor from Horace Beck, F.S.A. who had inherited it from his father. Clarke gift.' [typed in red:] 'Lent to Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1935.' [added in blue pen:] 'Returned by 1952' and 'about 11 cms'. [added in black pen:] 'Centenary Exhibition'. [stamped in red ink:] 'CUMAA 21 JUL 1987 TRANSCRIBED'. A small red round sticker pasted on the card. [added in black pen:] 'see over'. Three black and white photographs of the objects glued on the back of the card.
Catalogue card 2 reads [stamped in black ink:] 'FIJI'. [typed:] 'Female figure in sperm whales tooth ivory. L. C. G. Clarke'. [added in pencil:] 'Locality of origin uncertain, reputed FIJI'. [in pencil in the bottom left corner:] '1/292'. [added in pencil: '1925-336'. [stamped in blue ink in the bottom right corner:] 'SHOW CASE NUMBER 1'. A small red round sticker pasted on the card. At the back of the card, 'CUMAA 21 JUL 1987 TRANSCRIBED' stamped in red ink.
Catalogue card 3 reads [handwritten in black ink:] '1925-336. Female figure in sperm whales tooth ivory. Show Case number 1'. [added in pencil:] 'Locality of origin uncertain, reputed FIJI'. [in pencil in the bottom left corner:] '1/292'. [added in pencil:] '1925.336'.
Event Date 3/10/2012
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (CMS Context)
Exhibited: 'Chiefs & Governors: Art and power in Fiji', Cambridge MAA, 7 June 2013 - 19 April 2014.
Event Date 25/4/2014
Author: Remke van der Velden

Conservation (Assessment Only)
CON.2015.1998 | Assessment Only
Event Date 18/9/2015
Author: rah99

Description (CMS Description)
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Event Date 7/12/2016
Author: maa