Description (CMS Description)
Figure of a seated man made of wood with inlay around the eyes and lines incised on the face, arms and legs. The incision on the face is to represent tattooing. A bead serves for each eye bound by a pearl shell ring to represent the lashes. On the head is a wooden dish to form the bowl.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Labels & inscriptions: old label glued to catalogue card reads: '1916.37. Human figure: carrying bowl, with obsidian and shell eyes. Solomon Islands. F. Jenkinson, M.A.'. This label previously glued to the back of the figure.
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
This figure is probably a female figure. Light wood stained black. incisions on arms and legs to represent body ornaments and on the face to represent tattoos. Red pigments visible on stomach, lower back and upper arms and within the facial incisions. Eyes inlaid with a flake of obsidian and a serrated ring of shell.
Event Date 7/5/2015
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Accession Register volume 1, page 11 reads: 'E 1916.37-38. Two squatting human figures on flat stands. One with round bowl on head has the eyes set with an obsidian flake in a ring of pearl shell [E 1916.37]; the other with shell ring [E 1916.38], and both show facial marks. Formerly the property of Miss Wetton (of 100 Church Street, Kensington) the donor's sister in law. [donor:] F. Jenkinson, M.A.'
Event Date 7/5/2015
Author: Lucie Carreau