Head of an Easter Island Moai Kavakava Figure

Description:

Head of an Easter Island Moai Kavakava Figure, toromiro wood, from a large moai kavakava figure, with heavy brow above deeply cut eyes which once held obsidian and bone eyes, with faint engraving of a bird on the top of the head, ht. 4 1/2 in.

Provenance: A private North Andover, Massachusetts, collection; Imogene Cobb Best, Tenafly, New Jersey, by descent through the Cobb family.
Estimate $4,000-6,000


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