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Oval breast-plate in gilded brass, 'worn on the sword belt of an officer in the Royal Aberdeen Volunteers (1794-1802)' (Reid 1912).
Inscription: Aberdeen coat of arms BON ACCORD | ABERDEEN

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…

Breast ornament, made of segments of melo shell, with string for suspension in matted vegetable fibre decorated with pieces of shell.

Camel's bridle/collar in silver with twenty cylindrical-shaped ornaments and eighteen square ornaments strung on plaited cord, with three conical tassels hanging from each ornament, and seventeen green beads separating the ornaments from one another.

The New Shaver was not in favour of Radical or Chartist movements.