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Pair of boots in sealskin (legs have lost hair), decorated with cotton embroidery in green, blue, red and purple, sole in suede-like hide, tan colour, toes pleated, red thread around tongue/sole seam. 'Made by Mrs Lane, a half-caste, for Sir William…

Carving in wood of figure group: chief seated with fly whisk, beaded crown with birds on top, below are 3 female servants standing, and at base two wives, seated. Described in Reid (1912) as a 'fetish'.

Carved male figure, seated on a stool, in wood and decorated with zigzag, wavy and spiral carvings filled with lime. Hunt, 1981, p11, 'Free-standing sculpture from South-East New Guinea is rare and its function unknown. This figure and 59 closely…

Wooden house board, carved and painted in red, white and black, motif: waves, scrolls and anthropomorphic.

Wooden house board, carved and painted in red, white and black, motif: scroll pattern and dolphins.

Wooden drum with handle. Toothed, circular, spiral and triangular carvings, decorated with red, white and black pigment, with head in hide (wallaby?).

Neck ornament made from sperm whale tooth and twisted cord for suspension. Inscription: Incised: MVIKE

Breast Plates. These two objects, each known as a civa vono vono in Fiji, was worn on ceremonial occasions as a sign of rank. No 3 is made of trochus shell, sperm whale tooth and cotton. Cotton was not grown in Fiji and would have been imported from…

Breast plate made of trochus shell and sections of teeth of sperm whale, with cord of strips of coloured cotton for suspension. Structure: boss in shell edged with ivory (4 pieces & serrated), with central oranment (ivory & lunate), coloured cloth…

Fork, 4 tines, in light brown wood, relief decoration of impressed triangles.