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figure, cranes

human history
  • Description

    figure; depicts two crane birds on a base of a rock mass next to the ocean; cranes are cast silver with incised detailing of feathers, legs, and laws; the cranes are facing each other with one with its head in the air and beak open and the other crane looking downwards; the silver is very oxidised and appears brown; the base is bronze; small waves are depicted with faintly raised metal on the sides of the rocks; some incised lines in the ocean; underside of base is concave with only the edges of the base for resting surface; the stalks are removable from base with the base having small holes and the stalks having extended pins coming from legs that slot into the base holes;

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  • Place
  • Accession Number
    1934.316
  • Accession Date
    1934
  • Other Id

    20858 (ethnology)

    M1483 (miscellaneous)

  • Department
figure, 1934.316, M1483, 20858, Photographed by Richard Ng,… … Read more

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