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<rdf:Description rdf:about="https://exhibitions.abdn.ac.uk/university-collections/document/1522">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[platter (pudding-plate) ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Shallow, concave, oval wooden platter, with four feet and &#039;thistle-shaped&#039; perforated handles at each end.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[Early: 1800 Late: 1911]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:relation><![CDATA[wood]]></dcterms:relation>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[H: 130 mm L(with handles): 710 mm W: 376 mm | L]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[<a href="http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&amp;dsqApp=Archive&amp;dsqCmd=Show.tcl&amp;dsqDb=Catalog&amp;dsqPos=0&amp;dsqSearch=%28ObjectNumber%3D%27ABDUA%3A3043%27%29">ABDUA:3043</a>]]></dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Melanesia Vanuatu Santo (South West) ]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://exhibitions.abdn.ac.uk/university-collections/document/1523">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[platter]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Wooden platter, turtle shape &#039;used for holding oil&#039;.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Amateur etching of the interior of chapel shown soon after the restoration work of the 1880&#039;s. The memorial to Bishop Elphinstone, the founder of King&#039;s College is seen centrally placed at the foot of the sanctuary. The memorial was constructed using the base and lid of Elphinstone&#039;s original tomb.<br />
<br />
See painting ABDUA: 30269. The rural nature of Old Aberdeen is stressed. A. Nasmyth (1758-1840) major Scottish neo-classical landscape and later proto-Picturesque landscape painter. Trained at Trustees Academy and worked for A. Ramsay. The original painting, now in Aberdeen City collection, was based on a drawing provided by R. Seaton, an Aberdeen based early nineteenth century landscape painter.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[Early: 1800 Late: 1900 ]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[H: 60 mm L: 603 mm W: 331 mm ]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[<a href="http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&amp;dsqApp=Archive&amp;dsqCmd=Show.tcl&amp;dsqDb=Catalog&amp;dsqPos=0&amp;dsqSearch=%28ObjectNumber%3D%27ABDUA%3A3051%27%29">ABDUA:3051</a>]]></dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Melanesia Vanuatu]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://exhibitions.abdn.ac.uk/university-collections/document/1524">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[ platter (pudding-plate) ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[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&#039;s &#039;Slip Catalogue&#039;: &#039;Illustrated on page 13 of photographic Album compiled by The Rev F G Bowie, of the New Hebrides Group&#039; For interpretations of the design see Hunt (1981).]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[Early: 1800 Late: 1930]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:relation><![CDATA[wood ]]></dcterms:relation>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[L( with handles): 1214 mm W: 290 mm | L(without h ]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[<a href="http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&amp;dsqApp=Archive&amp;dsqCmd=Show.tcl&amp;dsqDb=Catalog&amp;dsqPos=0&amp;dsqSearch=%28ObjectNumber%3D%27ABDUA%3A3076%27%29">ABDUA:3076</a>]]></dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[ Melanesia Vanuatu Santo (South West?) ]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://exhibitions.abdn.ac.uk/university-collections/document/1525">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[ mandible.pig ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Lower jaw of domestic boar - tusks almost fully recurved. For ceremonial use. &#039;A man&#039;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 circular tusks, he becomes a high chief, and takes his rank accordingly in next world. Sows are only fit for females.&#039; (Reid 1912, p286).]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Power depended upon the acquisition of wealth with which to buy advancement in exclusive graded societies. The standard form of wealth was pigs with exceptionally long and circular lower canine tusks, caused by the artificial removal of the upper grinders.<br />
<br />
]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[Early: 1800 Late: 1905]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:relation><![CDATA[bone pig.tooth (several) ]]></dcterms:relation>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[ L: 260 mm W: 120 mm]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[<a href="http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&amp;dsqApp=Archive&amp;dsqCmd=Show.tcl&amp;dsqDb=Catalog&amp;dsqPos=0&amp;dsqSearch=%28ObjectNumber%3D%27ABDUA%3A3049%27%29">ABDUA:3049</a>]]></dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Melanesia Vanuatu Santo ]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://exhibitions.abdn.ac.uk/university-collections/document/1526">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[mandible.pig ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Lower jaw of domestic boar, tusks fully recurved &amp; re-entering jaw. Reid(1912): &#039;Lower jaw of domestic boar, aged sixteen years and seven months, killed December 1910.&#039;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Power depended upon the acquisition of wealth with which to buy advancement in exclusive graded societies. The standard form of wealth was pigs with exceptionally long and circular lower canine tusks, caused by the artificial removal of the upper grinders. <br /><br />Dairy bowl made at Seaton Pottery. The old course of the River Don is depicted. The rural nature of Old Aberdeen is emphasised with the herdboy seen in the group of three figures.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[Early: 1894 Late: 1910]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:relation><![CDATA[bone pig.tooth (several) ]]></dcterms:relation>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[L: 255 mm W: 182 mm]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[<a href="http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&amp;dsqApp=Archive&amp;dsqCmd=Show.tcl&amp;dsqDb=Catalog&amp;dsqPos=0&amp;dsqSearch=%28ObjectNumber%3D%27ABDUA%3A3050%27%29">ABDUA:3050</a>]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://exhibitions.abdn.ac.uk/university-collections/document/1527">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[ armlet ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[double circle]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Lower jaws of domestic boars and boar&#039;s tusk armlets Santo, New Hebrides Power depended upon the acquisition of wealth with which to buy advancement in exclusive graded societies. The standard form of wealth was pigs with exceptionally long and circular lower canine tusks, caused by the artificial removal of the upper grinders.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Bowie,F.G Rev]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[Early: 1800 Late: 1930]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Bowie,F.G Rev]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:relation><![CDATA[tusk boar.tusk ]]></dcterms:relation>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[<a href="http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&amp;dsqApp=Archive&amp;dsqCmd=Show.tcl&amp;dsqDb=Catalog&amp;dsqPos=0&amp;dsqSearch=%28ObjectNumber%3D%27ABDUA%3A3268%27%29">ABDUA:3268</a>]]></dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[ Melanesia Vanuatu ]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://exhibitions.abdn.ac.uk/university-collections/document/1528">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[armlet ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[single circle]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Bowie,F.G Rev]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[ Early: 1800 Late: 1920 ]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Bowie, F.G Rev]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:relation><![CDATA[tusk boar.tusk ]]></dcterms:relation>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[<a href="http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&amp;dsqApp=Archive&amp;dsqCmd=Show.tcl&amp;dsqDb=Catalog&amp;dsqPos=0&amp;dsqSearch=%28ObjectNumber%3D%27ABDUA%3A3273%27%29">ABDUA:3273</a>]]></dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Melanesia Vanuatu Vanuatu ]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://exhibitions.abdn.ac.uk/university-collections/document/1529">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[club]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Club with carved decoration of plain and notched circular bands. Reid (1912): &#039;Used in killing boars in ceremonies.&#039; Inscription: used in killing boars in ceremonies]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Sickert (1860-1942) trained at the Slade School and under J. A. M. Whistler. Much influenced by Degas whom he met in 1883. Lived in Dieppe 1899-1905. After his return to England he was leader of the Camden Town Group 1907-1914. This work probably dates from that period and has been identified as a self-portrait of the artist]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Bowie, F.G Rev]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[Early: 1800 Late: 1911 ]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Bowie,F.G Rev ]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:relation><![CDATA[wood]]></dcterms:relation>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[L: 624 mm ]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[<a href="http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&amp;dsqApp=Archive&amp;dsqCmd=Show.tcl&amp;dsqDb=Catalog&amp;dsqPos=0&amp;dsqSearch=%28ObjectNumber%3D%27ABDUA%3A3019%27%29">ABDUA:3019</a>]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://exhibitions.abdn.ac.uk/university-collections/document/1530">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[neck.ornament ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Neck ornament made of boar&#039;s tusk and small woven fibre rectangle, colour red.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[St Andrews Cathedral as designed by Simpson 1822.<br />
<br />
]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Bowie,F.G Rev]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[ Early: 1800 Late: 1911]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Bowie,F.G Rev]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:relation><![CDATA[pig.tooth vegetable.fibre string ]]></dcterms:relation>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[Dia(of boar&#039;s tusk): 83 mm ]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[<a href="http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&amp;dsqApp=Archive&amp;dsqCmd=Show.tcl&amp;dsqDb=Catalog&amp;dsqPos=0&amp;dsqSearch=%28ObjectNumber%3D%27ABDUA%3A3029%27%29">ABDUA:3029</a>]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://exhibitions.abdn.ac.uk/university-collections/document/1531">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[club dance.club ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Wooden club, decorated with carved human figure on handle. Museum&#039;s &#039;Slip Catalogue&#039;: &#039;Club (Nambat Mol - little pig killing), ceremonial&#039;.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[W. MacGillivray (1796-1852) was Professor of Natural History at Marischal College from 1841. He was author of &#039;A History of British Birds&#039; and an eminent authority on ornithology. This work may be a copy of a watercolour completed in oil by MacGillivray&#039;s daughter Anne.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[Early: 1800 Late: 1930]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:relation><![CDATA[wood]]></dcterms:relation>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[L: 530 mm Th: 40 mm]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[<a href="http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&amp;dsqApp=Archive&amp;dsqCmd=Show.tcl&amp;dsqDb=Catalog&amp;dsqPos=0&amp;dsqSearch=%28ObjectNumber%3D%27ABDUA%3A3078%27%29">ABDUA:3078</a>]]></dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Melanesia Vanuatu Malekula (South) Ahamb ]]></dcterms:coverage>
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