Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Date

Tobacco pipe

1851-1930

Painted and carved male ancestral figure with headdress

1851-1910

Adze on axe

1883-1925

Wood Bull-roarer carved into shape of half human, half crocodile figure, Papua New Guinea, 1871-1910

1871-1910

Large ceremonial mask made of tapa (bark cloth) stretched over cane frame

1871-1920

U-shaped nose pin

1870-1920

Head rest of carved wood with supports in form of stylised human figures

1901-1920

Tight rigid belt of coiled bark

1880-1920

Amulet consisting of brown polished immature coconut

1871-1910

Carved wooden implement

1871-1920

Miniature arrow

1880-1905

Dental forceps

1850-1930

Miniature arrow

1880-1905

Lancet, wood with bone blade

1880-1930

Nose stick consisting of cylindircal piece of bamboo

1870-1920

Skull hook

1851-1925

Pregnancy girdle

1871-1925

Pearl shell

1850-1929

Carved wooden ancestral mask

1870-1920

Amulet consisting of block polished immature coconut carved to represent boar's head

1871-1910

Nose pin

1891-1930

Nose pin

1891-1930

Pendant nose disc made of tortoiseshell

1871-1920

Tobacoo pipe

1850-1920

Amulet consisting of small fibre bag

1881-1925

Carved wood headrest

1871-1920

Tobacco pipe made of bamboo stem

1880-1925

Coconut charm to ward off evil spirits, Papua New Guinea, 1890-1920

1890-1920

Lime box made from a gourd

1800-1922

Nose pin

1891-1925

Wooden statue, with long beak, mounated on ebony p

1800-1930

Carved wooden double hook for meat

1880-1930

Wooden pestle and mortar for breaking betel nuts

Carved wooden headrest

1871-1920

Wooden probes

1880-1905

Miniature arrow

1880-1905

Miniature bow

1880-1905

Miniature bow used with arrow in blood-letting

1880-1905

Conch shell trumpet used by people of New Guinea

1850-1920

Conch-shell trumpet

1871-1920

Bull roarer

1871-1910

Carved wooden headrest

1871-1920

Club with wooden shaft and stone disc head covered with fossil traces

1801-1910

Medicine container made from section of a bamboo

1881-1920

Twisted cane staff with handle in form of right hand grasping serpent

1801-1900

Wooden bull-roarer or gopi-board

1880-1910

Woven fibre string band foir compressing breast with coloured bead decoration

1881-1925

Wooden ancestor board

1851-1920

Amulet consisting of black polished nut with zoomorphic carved decoration

1871-1910

Small fibre fishing net

1801-1900