Title
house.board
Identifier
Description
Wooden house board, carved and painted in red, white and black, motif: waves, scrolls and anthropomorphic.
Date
Early: 1850 Late: 1899
Format
L: 1174 mm W(in centre): 178 mm Th(in centre): 3
Coverage
Melanesia Papua.New.Guinea South.East
Creator
Macgregor, William Sir
Relation
wood pigment
Contributor
Macgregor,William Sir
Abstract
House boards New Guinea Carved boards used in house decoration. They are carved and painted with symbolic motifs including human faces, squid and porpoises.
Glass Cases I & II, Shelf 8. Two Porcupine Chair Seats. Nova Scotia.
Thermometer for cheese making (late 20th cent).
Christening bowl from Greyfriar's Kirk (18th cent).
During the Neolithic in Britain, about 4000-2000 BC, accomplished flint knapping produced some highly finished items, such as arrowheads, knives, sickles and laurel leaf points. These, along with ground stone artifacts, were probably objects denoting high social status. This is a discoidal knife beautifully made on a large flake of grey flint. The D-shaped knife has been pressure flaked to thin it, then faces have been polished, and the edges also, to sharpen them. The knife was found in the Bog of Fintray, Fintray, Aberdeenshire, along with other well-made flint tools. The style and manufacture of the flints is typical of the Later Neolithic period. The flint may come from another part of Britain.
This socketed bronze axe-head is part of a collection of bronzes donated to Marischal Museum, Aberdeen in July 1984. The donation included the donor's great-grandfather William Joyner's original collection of the Dingwall hoard of bronzes taken by him to Natal, South Africa in 1851 and two other bronzes. The hoard comprises two socketed axes, a sunflower pin-head and a rare neck-ring, all dating from the later Bronze Age, 1100-700BC and found together near Dingwall in the early 19th century. The two other bronzes became associated with the collection while in Africa and are probably of African origin. During the prehistoric period collections of metal or stone items, often of value to the community or individuals, were buried or deposited in wet places. Axeheads, swords, halberds and ornaments are often found in these hoards. The type of artefact found in a hoard is probably not typical of everyday objects. However, the associations of different objects can help to establish the dates of artefact types.
During the 17th to 19th centuries, after the Reformation, pewter was often used for church communion vessels and furnishings particularly in the Protestant churches, because either the church was too poor to afford silver or because the silver was taken in times of war to be melted down for funds. This is a bracket font, a pewter bowl held in an iron bracket, that was mounted under the pulpit of the church at Newmachar, Aberdeenshire. It would have been used for baptisms. It dates from the 19th century and possibly earlier.
During the earlier Bronze Age, 1800-1100BC, flat axe-heads were cast by pouring molten metal into a matrix carved in stone, probably by specialist bronze smiths. Sometimes these moulds have more than one matrix, indicating other bronze objects were also cast. This axe mould is made of Old Red Sandstone, a local sandstone. A rounded boulder has been split to make a flat surface, into which has been carved a single matrix for a Migdale axe-head. The stone is reddened around the matrix, probably by the hot metal, and one edge of the matrix is chipped, perhaps from the manufacturing process. The axe-mould was found during ploughing at Corsegight, New Deer, Aberdeenshire. Another similar mould was found later at the same location, suggesting that bronze axe making was a specialised activity at this location.
Male and female figures Haida style, Queen charlotte Islands, British Columbia Similar to a number of pairs of figures collected in the 1840's and 1850's. The woman invariably wears a button blanket of the panel type, fastened at the neck, while the man usually has a blanket wrapped under one arm. He also usually wears a handkerchief tied around his head. The style of dress and face-paint is typical and is good evidence for the appearance of mid-19th century Haida.
Glass Cases I & II, Shelf 8. Two Porcupine Chair Seats. Nova Scotia.
Thermometer for cheese making (late 20th cent).
Christening bowl from Greyfriar's Kirk (18th cent).
During the Neolithic in Britain, about 4000-2000 BC, accomplished flint knapping produced some highly finished items, such as arrowheads, knives, sickles and laurel leaf points. These, along with ground stone artifacts, were probably objects denoting high social status. This is a discoidal knife beautifully made on a large flake of grey flint. The D-shaped knife has been pressure flaked to thin it, then faces have been polished, and the edges also, to sharpen them. The knife was found in the Bog of Fintray, Fintray, Aberdeenshire, along with other well-made flint tools. The style and manufacture of the flints is typical of the Later Neolithic period. The flint may come from another part of Britain.
This socketed bronze axe-head is part of a collection of bronzes donated to Marischal Museum, Aberdeen in July 1984. The donation included the donor's great-grandfather William Joyner's original collection of the Dingwall hoard of bronzes taken by him to Natal, South Africa in 1851 and two other bronzes. The hoard comprises two socketed axes, a sunflower pin-head and a rare neck-ring, all dating from the later Bronze Age, 1100-700BC and found together near Dingwall in the early 19th century. The two other bronzes became associated with the collection while in Africa and are probably of African origin. During the prehistoric period collections of metal or stone items, often of value to the community or individuals, were buried or deposited in wet places. Axeheads, swords, halberds and ornaments are often found in these hoards. The type of artefact found in a hoard is probably not typical of everyday objects. However, the associations of different objects can help to establish the dates of artefact types.
During the 17th to 19th centuries, after the Reformation, pewter was often used for church communion vessels and furnishings particularly in the Protestant churches, because either the church was too poor to afford silver or because the silver was taken in times of war to be melted down for funds. This is a bracket font, a pewter bowl held in an iron bracket, that was mounted under the pulpit of the church at Newmachar, Aberdeenshire. It would have been used for baptisms. It dates from the 19th century and possibly earlier.
During the earlier Bronze Age, 1800-1100BC, flat axe-heads were cast by pouring molten metal into a matrix carved in stone, probably by specialist bronze smiths. Sometimes these moulds have more than one matrix, indicating other bronze objects were also cast. This axe mould is made of Old Red Sandstone, a local sandstone. A rounded boulder has been split to make a flat surface, into which has been carved a single matrix for a Migdale axe-head. The stone is reddened around the matrix, probably by the hot metal, and one edge of the matrix is chipped, perhaps from the manufacturing process. The axe-mould was found during ploughing at Corsegight, New Deer, Aberdeenshire. Another similar mould was found later at the same location, suggesting that bronze axe making was a specialised activity at this location.
Male and female figures Haida style, Queen charlotte Islands, British Columbia Similar to a number of pairs of figures collected in the 1840's and 1850's. The woman invariably wears a button blanket of the panel type, fastened at the neck, while the man usually has a blanket wrapped under one arm. He also usually wears a handkerchief tied around his head. The style of dress and face-paint is typical and is good evidence for the appearance of mid-19th century Haida.
UUID
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