Maori peoples, probably Poverty Bay, eastern North Island, New Zealand
Wood - tōtara (Podocarpus totara) or rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum)
1500-1769 (Te Puawaitanga ‘The Flowering Period')
Height: 82.5 cm
Provenance
S. Danneford, Auckland
Sarah Bernhardt, Paris, (acquired from the above, 1891)
Antony Innocent Moris [“le Père Moris”], Paris
Josef Müller, Geneva (acquired in Paris, 1942)
Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva [Inv. No. 5110-A and B]
Entwistle, London and Paris
Private Collection
Selected Exhibition History
1998, Marseille, Musée d’Arts Africains, Océaniens, Amérindiens (MAAOA), Arts des Mers du Sud dans les Collections du Musée Barbier-Mueller. Insulinde, Mélanesie, Polynésie, Micronésie
Selected Publication History
Augustus Hamilton, Maori Art, Wellington, 1896, p 162, pl XXVI, fig 4
F. Poncetton and A. Portier, Les Arts Sauvages: Océanie, Paris, 1929/30, plates I and II
D.R. Simmons, Whakairo: Maori Tribal Art, Auckland, 1985, p 159, fig 129
Douglas Newton, Ed, Arts des Mers du Sud: Collections du Musée Barbier-Mueller, Paris, 1998, p 351-52, pl 5 and p 352, pl B