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Shallow, concave, oval wooden platter, with four feet and 'thistle-shaped' perforated handles at each end.

Wooden platter, turtle shape 'used for holding oil'.

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's 'Slip Catalogue': 'Illustrated on page…

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…

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.'

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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

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

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