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Necker Island

island, Hawaii, United States

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stone sculpture

  • dilly bag; Aboriginal Australian art, Northern Territory, Australia
    In Oceanic art and architecture: Polynesia

    …resembles small stone figures from Necker Island, the most northerly of the Hawaiian group. These are posed frontally, have circular faces with clumsily delineated features, and may date from about the 10th century. They would seem to be representative of an ancestral Polynesian carving style and are the earliest sculpture…

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