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Wooden spoon, bowl is leaf-shaped, handle pyramidal, edges perforated and tapering to a spatula end. Hard wood. Inscription: for Taro pudding

Mask worn at a dance.

Knife or sita, made of shell. Slip: 'Found when the people were clearing land for their annual yam planting.'

Club in hard wood. Handwritten addition to Museum's 'Slip Catalogue' reads: 'Said to have been brought from the New Hebrides by a christian missionary Peter Milne and presented by him to the Reverend Thomas Lockerby Wilson, first minister of the Free…

One of five clubs listed in Reid, 1912. Circular disc-like end. James Edward Keith (1696 -1758), Younger brother of the last Earl Marischal of Scotland. Exiled for taking up arms against the Hanovarians in the 1715 uprising, he fled to the Continent,…

Girdle in bark, dyed red. Worn by males.

Notebooks and diaries written by Frederick Gatherer Bowie. Bowie (1869-1933) born Kirkwall, educated Aberdeen, MA 1891 Aberdeen University. Ordained by Aberdeen Free Church Presbytery 1896, appointed as missionary to New Hebrides 14 February 1896.…

Pottery head, with headdress and slanting eyes.

Moulded red clay, constructed as a plaque, female figurine with headdress, necklace and baby on her back.

Pre-classic female figurine with exaggerated shoulders and hips, no head. Back view on display.