About the Artwork
Gorget
between 1775 and 1800
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Oceanian
Easter island
Toromiro wood
Overall: 9 3/8 × 24 1/4 × 1 1/4 inches (23.8 × 61.6 × 3.2 cm)
Sculpture
Oceanic Art
Founders Society Purchase, Henry Ford II Fund
81.698
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Provenance
James Hooper
1989. Plymouth Museum
Mr. Herd. (L & R Entwistle and Company, Ltd., London, England)
1981-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Phelps, S. Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Africa, and the Americas (The James Hooper Collection). London, 1976, no. 381, pl. 45.
Hooper, J. and C. Burland. The Art of Primitive People. London, 1953, pl. 16b.
Bulletin of the DIA 60, no. 1/2. 1981-82, p. 4 (ill.).
100 Masterworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1985, p. 76-77 (ill.).
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Easter Island, Oceanian, Gorget, between 1775 and 1800, toromiro wood. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Henry Ford II Fund, 81.698.
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