Browse Items (804 total)

  • Collection: Collecting the world

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Gilded bronze statuette, monk with a shaven head, seated on a lotus base. Inscription on back.

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One of six shallow boxes. This one is square and set with clusters of tiny turquoise stones. Described as one of the 'Charm Boxes' on list in Museum Report 1931-32. Original tie-on label describes them as 'Talisman' boxes for holding magic promise.

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Wooden board, carved in relief and painted in red and black, motif: scroll patterns and stylised human heads.

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Wooden bowman's shield, decorated with carvings of 'grotesque' human faces, in white and brown paint.

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Made from whale teeth (32 spikes) strung together with plaited vegetable fibre.

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Comb made from a single piece of wood, carved handles, bound with string made from twisted vegetable fibre.

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Amulet case in dyed (green, brown, black) and tooled leather, and grey and white antelope skin. Two leather tassels, one at each side of base of base. Two loops for suspension strap (strap missing).

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Stock of strips sewn together, wooden handle with ivory butt.

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Carved ivory pendant, in the form of two human figures, back to back, with a double hook below. Given to Macgregor in Namosi, a village in Viti Levu, Fiji and described by him as a 'Rat-safe' (see Museum's 'Slip Catalogue). Hunt (1981):…

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Made from carved whale teeth (38 spikes) strung together with plaited vegetable fibre.
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