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Charles Hercules Read; a tribute on his retirement from the British museum and a record of the chief additions to the Department of British and mediaeval antiquities and ethnography during his keepership, 1896-1921 (1921)

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An illustration from Charles Hercules Read; a tribute on his retirement from the British museum and a record of the chief additions to the Department of British and mediaeval antiquities and ethnography during his keepership, 1896-1921, 1921, leaf 224
vity being concealed by a movable panel which occupiesthe greater part of the back of the figure. When discovered, thecavity contained a number of smaller idols. The figure representsTangaroa Upao Vahu, supreme god of the Austral Islands, and wasbrought from the Island of Rurutu. Obtained with the…

Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval

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