Figure / man

Description

Teak figure of a standing man wearing a helmet and cape: South East Asia, Nicobar Islands, Enounga Village

Museum reference

A.1966.410

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Figure / man

Production information

Enounga Village, Nicobar Islands, SOUTH ASIA

Date

1860s

Materials

Teak

Associations

Finder: Edge, Joseph, Captain, 1867 (fl.)
Agent: McNair, John Frederick Adolphus, Major, 1828 - 1910
Royal Navy

References

XV. ‘Notes on the Nicobar Islanders. By Mr. G. M. Atkinson, Esq. * From information given to me by Captain James Mackenzie.’ The Journal of the Ethnological Society of London. Vol. II Session 1869-70, pp.137-140. A.1966.410 possibly illustrated in Fig. 4.

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Session 1870-71, p.354.