Title: | Easter Island One-Legged Female Dancing Figure |
Circa: | c 1800 |
Size: | 11" x 8" x 1.5" |
Medium: | Wood |
Price: | $12,500.00 |
Easter Island Carved Wooden Indigenous One-Legged Female Dancing FigureExtremely rare Figure of a Pregnant Woman in traditional one-legged dancing profile (“Moai papa/pa'apa'a”). Note swollen or pregnant abdomen, as opposed to usual concave/sunken belly in most images. Note also swollen neck, common to most old sculptures and possibly indicative of a goiter due to malnutrition.Probably 18th/19th Century.
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