Staff God

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Staff God

Cook Islands, Mangaia, circa 1800
Sculpture
Wood, fiber, human hair, and feathers
Overall: 46 1/2 × 5 1/8 × 3 3/8 in. Length (Feather (max)): 4 in. (10.16 cm) Length (Feather (min)): 2 1/4 in. (5.72 cm)
Gift of the Masco Corporation Foundation (M.2009.126.1)
Art of the Pacific
Not currently on public view

Provenance

Collected by Reverend John Williams (1796–1839) and Reverend Platt of the London Missionary Society on Mangaia, in 1823. By inheritance, from at least 1880, to J.F. Keep, London....
Collected by Reverend John Williams (1796–1839) and Reverend Platt of the London Missionary Society on Mangaia, in 1823. By inheritance, from at least 1880, to J.F. Keep, London. Anonymous (sale, London, Sotheby’s, 16 June 1980, lot 64). Wayne Heathcote (b. 1943), New York, NY, sold to; Masco Corporation Collection, Livonia, MI; Masco Corporation Foundation, Taylor, MI, gift 2009 to; LACMA.
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Bibliography

  • Wardwell, Allen. Island Ancestors: Oceanic Art from the Masco Collection. [Seattle]: University of Washington Press, 1994.