tiki Wood height 16 5/8in (42.2cm) Provenance Philippe Audoin Collection, Paris Guy Loudmer, Paris, 25 June 1992, Lot 85 Mark and Carolyn Blackburn Collection, Honolulu Exhibited Easter Island Foundation, Kamuela, Hawai'i, 2000 Published Kaeppler, Adrienne, Polynesia - The Mark and Carolyn Blackburn Collection of Polynesian Art, University of Hawaii Press, 2010, p. 317, fig. 298 Kaeppler notes (Ibid.), 'This unusual figure may have been carved by the same hand as a similar sculpture formerly in the Madame Rousseau and Jay C. Leff collections. The two carvings are differentiated by the addition of a secondary figure on the back of this example (the hands only remaining). There were stylistic differences in carving sculpture within the island group, with isolated art centers and distinct intra-island variations. The extremely rugged, mountainous terrain isolated even neighboring tribes. There are remains of an old label on the right hand side of the head, reading "idole des marqueisas, nou ka hiva."'