Female Ancestral Figure
Malekula Island,Vanuatu
Early 20th century
Wood
H: 35 in :: 88.9 cm
An important and soulful statue from Malekula, New Hebrides. Collected by Douglas Fairbanks Sr, the first 'King of Hollywood' and his cameraman, Charles Lewis on Fairbank's 1935 expedition to those then distant islands. See in situ photograph. cf musée de l'homme, Paris for similar examples.
Inventory # 104055
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