Male Figure (Maoi Mangata)
Object PlaceEaster Island, Chile
Medium/TechniqueWood, shell, obsidian
DimensionsOverall: 58.5 x 12 x 9 cm (23 1/16 x 4 3/4 x 3 9/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of William E. and Bertha L. Teel
Accession number1994.418
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Not on viewClassificationsSculpture
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ProvenanceDecember 4-5, 1930, anonymous sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, lot 367. Possibly with Stephen Chauvet (b. 1885 – d. 1950), Paris. March 30, 1987, anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, lot 21. Jacques Kerchache (b. 1942 – d. 2001), Paris; sold by Kerchache to Robert Poupion, Neuilly, France. 1991, sold by Hélène et Philippe Leloup, Arts Primitifs, Paris, to William and Bertha Teel, Marblehead, MA; 1994, partial gift of William and Bertha Teel to the MFA; 2014, acquired fully with the bequest of William Teel to the MFA. (Accession Dates: January 26, 1994 and February 26, 2014)
mid-19th to early 20th century
2061–1570 B.C.
A.D. 1000–1500
19th century
57 B.C.–A.D. 668
57 B.C.–A.D. 668
mid to late 20th century
20th century
early 20th century
19th–20th century
19th–20th century
mid 18th–19th century