Hoa Hakananaiʻa (&#039;lost, hidden or stolen friend&#039;), Moai (ancestor figure)

Hoa Hakananaiʻa ('lost, hidden or stolen friend'), Moai (ancestor figure)

identified by: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Oc1869-1005-1
assigned title: Hoa Hakananaiʻa ('lost, hidden or stolen friend'), Moai (ancestor figure)
assigned culture: Rapanui
assigned date: 1000%/1200%^^<http://id.loc.gov/datatypes/edtf/EDTF>
assigned text: Ancestor figure 'moai', called Hoa Hakananaiʻa (lost, hidden or stolen friend) made of basalt. The back of the figure features intricate petroglyphs associated with the bird man religion (tangata manu): birds, vulvas, dance paddles in the form of stylised human figures, a ring and a girdle design.
assigned provenance: Removed from original location during the HMS Topaze expedition to Rapa Nui (captained by Powell) in 1868 and presented to Queen Victoria by the Lords of the Admiralty. She then gifted it to the British Museum in 1869.
evidenced by: online catalogue

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