A wooden moai kavakava anthropomorphic figure carving with obsidian eyes set into fish vertebra sockets. Oc,G.T.1732, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum

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A wooden moai kavakava anthropomorphic figure carving with obsidian eyes set into fish vertebra sockets. Oc,G.T.1732, Mana Expedition to Easter Island, British Museum

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Lantern Slide (black and white); a wooden moai kavakava anthropomorphic figure carving with obsidian eyes set into fish vertebra sockets.

Context: It is unknown whether the moai figure in this image had been collected by Routledge, or whether it is in a museum collection.Related image: this image can also be found in Oc,B136.268

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1914 - 1915
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British Museum
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