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Figure carving on top of a long pole. Thomson's MS catalogue 1862: 'A long wooden idol placed in prow of canoe.' 92. Carved post. New Guinea, Humboldt Bay. The post belonged to Alexander Thomson of Banchory House, Aberdeen until his death in 1868. In…

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…

Wooden club, decorated with carved human figure on handle. Museum's 'Slip Catalogue': 'Club (Nambat Mol - little pig killing), ceremonial'.

Neck ornament made of boar's tusk and small woven fibre rectangle, colour red.

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

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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.'

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…