Outrigger canoe, dugout, from breadfruit tree. Fore and aft taper to a spike. Dear Professor Lockhart, I am so glad to think of the Papuan (native) canoe in Marischal College with all the other New Guinea things (I feel sure it must be the only…
Kayak, in seal skins sewed together with tendon and stretched over framework in pieces of redwood lashed together with strips of whalebone and hide. (Wooden girth and rope lashing round manhole modern - inserted 1900.)' Reported by Reid (1912) as…
Club with carved decoration of plain and notched circular bands. Reid (1912): 'Used in killing boars in ceremonies.' Inscription: used in killing boars in ceremonies
Lower jaw of domestic boar - tusks almost fully recurved. For ceremonial use. 'A man's whole life at Santo depends upon the pig. Chieftanship is not hereditary in the north as in the south of New Hebrides group. If a man kills eleven pigs with…
Shallow, oval platter with anthropomorphic handles at each end; one handle has raised stylised head in centre of open, oval, serrated fish-tail, the other handle has a similar head but face broken away. Museum's 'Slip Catalogue': 'Illustrated on page…