- Title Information
- Title
- Él-[Rey]-de-costillas llega (Tu'u Ko Iho).Triptico del Rey Hotu Matu'a. Proyecto Isla de Pascua. Mahatu o'te mata'a [The King with Skeletal Appearance Arrives (Tu'u Ko Iho). Triptych of the King Hotu Matu'a. Easter Island Project. Third of the Month].
- Name:
Personal (naf)
(authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names.html")
- Name Part
- Fernando Birri
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- Creator
- Type of Resource (primo)
(authorityURI="https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Product_Documentation/020Primo_VE/Primo_VE_(English)/100Loading_Records_from_External_Sources_into_Primo_VE/Configuring_Normalization_Rules_for_External_Resources_(Primo_VE)#Supported_Resource_Types_in_Primo_VE")
- images
- Genre (LCSH)
(authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects.html")
- Drawing
- Abstract:
general
(displayLabel="Scope and Contents note")
- One of three similar, highly stylized paintings featuring large, bust-like human figures reminiscent of Moai statues or primitive masks. Each artwork depicts a long-necked figure, with a solemn or crying expression, and a fish placed at the base of the neck. Note: Hotu Matuꞌa was the legendary first settler and ariki mau (“supreme chief” or “king”) of Easter Island and ancestor of the Rapa Nui people. According to New Zealand linguist and Easter Island historian Steven Roger Fischer, Tuꞌu Ko Iho co-founded the settlement on the island; in some versions of the Rapa Nui oral tradition, he is also credited with bringing the statues to the island and making them walk. Fernando Birri may also be referencing the moai kavakava, a carved wooden figure from Rapa Nui representing an emaciated male ancestor or spirit, identifiable by its prominent ribcage and skull-like head. While Birri’s most prominent series from this period was Espejismos del Caribe [Mirages of the Caribbean], he was also exploring other mythologies of Latin America, as reflected in this work. Watercolor and pastel on paper.
- Note:
image_accessibility_alt_text
- A figure rendered in white chalk with heavy black outline, wearing a black cap. The figure's lower half is submerged in a black shadow that forms a fish. Vibrant yellow background.
- Note:
preferredcitation
- Él-[Rey]-de-costillas llega (Tu'u Ko Iho).Triptico del Rey Hotu Matu'a. Proyecto Isla de Pascua. Mahatu o'te mata'a [The King with Skeletal Appearance Arrives (Tu'u Ko Iho). Triptych of the King Hotu Matu'a. Easter Island Project. Third of the Month]., Fernando Birri Archive of Multimedia Arts - Pinturas, Ms.2010.050.pinturas, Brown University Library
- Origin Information
- Date Created:
Start
(encoding="w3cdtf", keyDate="yes")
- 1993
- Date Created:
End
(encoding="w3cdtf")
- 1993
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (iso639)
- spa
- Language Term:
Text
- Spanish
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (iso639)
- eng
- Language Term:
Text
- English
- Physical Description
- Extent
- 1.0
- digitalOrigin
- reformatted digital
- Access Condition:
rights statement
(href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/")
- In Copyright
- Access Condition:
restriction on access
- Collection is open for research.
- Subject (LCSH)
(authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects.html")
- Topic
- Fishes
- Subject (LCSH)
(authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects.html")
- Topic
- Moai (Megalithic monuments)
- Subject (LCSH)
(authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects.html")
- Geographic
- Easter Island
- Related Item:
Host
- Title Information
- Title
- Fernando Birri Archive of Multimedia Arts - Pinturas
- Identifier:
Local
- Ms.2010.050.pinturas
- Location
- holdingSimple
- copyInformation
- shelfLocator
- Box 9X, Folder 5
- Note
(displayLabel="Digital object made available by")
- Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)