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Decorted with jacquirity seeds set in resin, pigs' teeth and shell beads. Shape: double cross.

Wooden comb, decorated with glass beads, colours: red, blue and white. Reid (1912): 'Worn by chief.'

Wooden folding ruler (with brass hinge) adapted for use as a betel-lime spatula

Fork, in dark brown wood, with 4 tines and relief decoration of impressed triangles.

Fork, 4 tines, in light brown wood, relief decoration of impressed triangles.

Breast plate made of trochus shell and sections of teeth of sperm whale, with cord of strips of coloured cotton for suspension. Structure: boss in shell edged with ivory (4 pieces & serrated), with central oranment (ivory & lunate), coloured cloth…

Breast Plates. These two objects, each known as a civa vono vono in Fiji, was worn on ceremonial occasions as a sign of rank. No 3 is made of trochus shell, sperm whale tooth and cotton. Cotton was not grown in Fiji and would have been imported from…

Neck ornament made from sperm whale tooth and twisted cord for suspension. Inscription: Incised: MVIKE

Wooden drum with handle. Toothed, circular, spiral and triangular carvings, decorated with red, white and black pigment, with head in hide (wallaby?).

Wooden house board, carved and painted in red, white and black, motif: scroll pattern and dolphins.