Dolo

Dolo or burial urn chisled from a single block of limestone and set upon a pyramid of coral slab. This one contains the cremated remains of several leaders of one kin group. It served as a sacrificial altar where their ghosts were asked for assistance. The figure in bas relief is of a leader wearing traditional ornaments. His finger tips rest on the heads of two boys who were adopted by his group to take his place when he died. Dolo near Ogo.

• between 1958-1961

• Scheffler, Harold W., 1932-

This digital image is a surrogate of an item from the Harold Scheffler Papers (MSS 481).

• Choiseul (Solomon Islands)
• Melanesia
• Oceania
• Pacific Islands
• Solomon Islands

• Burial
• Choiseul Islanders (Solomon Islands people)
• Sculpture

• image

Online finding aid

• Harold Scheffler Papers

• Harold W. Scheffler

[Title, Date]. Harold Scheffler Papers. MSS 481. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

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