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

Mask worn at a dance.

Wooden comb with incised decoration (geometric patterns).

Wooden comb with incised decoration (barred lines).

Cooking pot, with everted rim and serrated projecting ridge around body, decorated with raised lines of zigzag impressions, red (slip).

Shallow, concave, oval wooden platter, with four feet and 'thistle-shaped' perforated handles at each end.

Wooden platter, turtle shape 'used for holding oil'.

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…

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…

Lower jaw of domestic boar, tusks fully recurved & re-entering jaw. Reid(1912): 'Lower jaw of domestic boar, aged sixteen years and seven months, killed December 1910.'