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Title
house.board
Identifier
Description
Wooden house board, carved and painted in red, white and black, motif: scroll pattern and dolphins.
Creator
Macgregor, William Sir
Date
Early: 1850 Late: 1899
Contributor
Macgregor,William Sir
Relation
wood pigment
Format
L: 904 mm
Coverage
Melanesia Papua.New.Guinea South.East
Abstract
House boards New Guinea Carved boards used in house decoration. They are carved and painted with symbolic motifs including human faces, squid and porpoises.
Working back from the research by Lurie & Anderson (1998) I believe this item to have been recorded in museum documents since 1887. It does not appear in Reid's 1912 Catalogue, but does have a dinstinctive paper label on the back, numbered 526 in red ink. These paper labels (circular with serrated edge) are associated with the notebook probably written by Nora Macdonald, c. 1896, listing the collection at King's College (ABDUA 63775). Pencilled in the margin against Item 9 (Fijian woman's dress ...) in 'Polynesian, Case XXXIII' is the number 526. A similar description appears in Michie's 1887 printed catalogue of objects at King's. The 'slip catalogue' appears to have been typed at some time between 1949 and 1969, at a time when it was found that many items at Marischal Museum had not been accessioned or catalogued. If Lurie & Anderson's research is correct then the capes were made between 1830 and 1860, and had not long been in the collection when catalogued by Michie (1887).
FEATHER GORGET - Yellow, Grey, Brown and Black Feathers on Tapa Cloth Backing. HAWAII
I. 4. FEEJEEAN FEMALE'S DRESS.
L. Polynesian. Case XXXIII, Item 9, (526). Fijian woman's dress made of feathers.
212. Cap, chief's, made of skin of leopard. Made by Wakilindi tribe. - Presented by Dr E Henriques, 1895.
Measuring ladle for milk (late 20th cent).
Straw rope.
Polished pitchstone knife, Bog of Fintray (c4000-4000BC).
563. Charm, with natural perforation, in flint. Suspended from tie-beam of roof of cowbyre to render cows witchproof. Buchan, Aberdeenshire.
During the Neolithic in Britain, about 4000-2000 BC, accomplished flint knapping produced some highly finished items, such as arrowheads, knives, sickles and laurel leaf points. These, along with ground stone artifacts, were probably objects denoting high social status in the Neolithic and earlier Bronze Age. This is a knife made on a flake of black pitchstone. It has been ground so that the whole surface is smooth and one edge is sharpened to a fine cutting edge by grinding. The back of the knife, although damaged, appears to be blunted. There is a slight keel running along the centre of the blade. Parallel grooves can be seen on the blade which may result from use. The knife was found in the Bog of Fintray, Fintray, Aberdeenshire along with other well-made flint tools. The technique and style of manufacture of the tools is typical of the later Neolithic period. The pitchstone does not come from Aberdeenshire and this indicates that the raw material, if not the tool, was brought from elsewhere in Britain. The size and shape of this knife resembles bronze razors from the Bronze Age in Scotland
Male and female figures Haida style, Queen charlotte Islands, British Columbia Similar to a number of pairs of figures collected in the 1840's and 1850's. The woman invariably wears a button blanket of the panel type, fastened at the neck, while the man usually has a blanket wrapped under one arm. He also usually wears a handkerchief tied around his head. The style of dress and face-paint is typical and is good evidence for the appearance of mid-19th century Haida.
Working back from the research by Lurie & Anderson (1998) I believe this item to have been recorded in museum documents since 1887. It does not appear in Reid's 1912 Catalogue, but does have a dinstinctive paper label on the back, numbered 526 in red ink. These paper labels (circular with serrated edge) are associated with the notebook probably written by Nora Macdonald, c. 1896, listing the collection at King's College (ABDUA 63775). Pencilled in the margin against Item 9 (Fijian woman's dress ...) in 'Polynesian, Case XXXIII' is the number 526. A similar description appears in Michie's 1887 printed catalogue of objects at King's. The 'slip catalogue' appears to have been typed at some time between 1949 and 1969, at a time when it was found that many items at Marischal Museum had not been accessioned or catalogued. If Lurie & Anderson's research is correct then the capes were made between 1830 and 1860, and had not long been in the collection when catalogued by Michie (1887).
FEATHER GORGET - Yellow, Grey, Brown and Black Feathers on Tapa Cloth Backing. HAWAII
I. 4. FEEJEEAN FEMALE'S DRESS.
L. Polynesian. Case XXXIII, Item 9, (526). Fijian woman's dress made of feathers.
212. Cap, chief's, made of skin of leopard. Made by Wakilindi tribe. - Presented by Dr E Henriques, 1895.
Measuring ladle for milk (late 20th cent).
Straw rope.
Polished pitchstone knife, Bog of Fintray (c4000-4000BC).
563. Charm, with natural perforation, in flint. Suspended from tie-beam of roof of cowbyre to render cows witchproof. Buchan, Aberdeenshire.
During the Neolithic in Britain, about 4000-2000 BC, accomplished flint knapping produced some highly finished items, such as arrowheads, knives, sickles and laurel leaf points. These, along with ground stone artifacts, were probably objects denoting high social status in the Neolithic and earlier Bronze Age. This is a knife made on a flake of black pitchstone. It has been ground so that the whole surface is smooth and one edge is sharpened to a fine cutting edge by grinding. The back of the knife, although damaged, appears to be blunted. There is a slight keel running along the centre of the blade. Parallel grooves can be seen on the blade which may result from use. The knife was found in the Bog of Fintray, Fintray, Aberdeenshire along with other well-made flint tools. The technique and style of manufacture of the tools is typical of the later Neolithic period. The pitchstone does not come from Aberdeenshire and this indicates that the raw material, if not the tool, was brought from elsewhere in Britain. The size and shape of this knife resembles bronze razors from the Bronze Age in Scotland
Male and female figures Haida style, Queen charlotte Islands, British Columbia Similar to a number of pairs of figures collected in the 1840's and 1850's. The woman invariably wears a button blanket of the panel type, fastened at the neck, while the man usually has a blanket wrapped under one arm. He also usually wears a handkerchief tied around his head. The style of dress and face-paint is typical and is good evidence for the appearance of mid-19th century Haida.