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two nickel (?) balls mounted on insulating rods affixed to a wooden base. Connection is made to the balls by plug in brass connectors, the connecting wires have been cut off. Mounted on a rectangular wooden base with four rubber feet, one ball can…

1 large adjustable spark gap with 1/2 mm separation scale from 0 to 100 mm. Balls plated brass; silver coloured. For detecting spark transmissions following Hertz's method.

Glass tube with brass ends; with ball terminals; inside tube is spiral of small metal discs each seperated by gap of less than 1 mm; when tube is placed across an electrostatic generator, a spiral discharge is seen around inside of tube caused by…

One of two spatulae made from the limb bones of cassowary. Decoration: dots & interlocking step pattern in relief, ornamented with seeds, shells, crab claws, teeth and red cloth.

Carved wooden lime spatula, decorated with female figure with glass beads (red), and shell beads (red). Hunt(1981): 'Betel chewing is practised widely in Melanesia. The betal mixture consists of nut of the areca palm, fruit or leaves of the betel…

Steel blade, guard in the form of two gilded animals, long wooden shaft painted in red, black and yellow. Thomson's MS Catalogue: 'Spear - Gold mounted - from Sumatra - bought from Major Ondaatje.'

Blow-pipe and spear combined. Steel spear-head and brass fore-sight are attached to the shaft with cane lashings, metal plate as rear-sight is missing. Blow-pipe forms the shaft. Illustrated in Ogston (1884-1929) Volume 3.

A large wooden spear or club.

Flint tool, a large laurel leaf point made in grey-brown flint, shaped by pressure flaking, with some shallow invasive retouch to sharpen the edges. More pointed at one end, but that tip has been either broken or removed. The end has then been…