God figure carving

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Title

God figure carving

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

This is a wood carving made in Tonga in 1983. It is small and portable and made from a light timber with a dark grain. It is one of several carved figures in the Pacific Cultures Collection made for the tourist market in Tonga in the mid to late twentieth century. Significance I n the 1800s, wood carving was a well established art form in Tonga. By the mid 1900s, it had diminished as the religious and customary contexts for its production had radically changed. In the 1960s and 1970s, visitin...

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Format

Image

Date created

1983

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/1314395

Related subjects

wood / carvings / woodcarving / Tonga / Polynesian / Oceanic / Tongan / Bernard Kernot

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