Sales catalogue: Glendining

Date:: 1-2 October 1934

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/8/199

Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Glendining. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Lor 267 2/7 22 Carved block with curious designs, used for print- ing designs on to their native tappa or bark cloth fisherman God at end Ear ornament of small porpoise teeth, trade beads, and with tortoiseshell fastener, very rare worn in hair Large shark fishing-hook of whalebone and _ shell Stone pestle, used for pounding bread-fruit A chief’s “throne ” or seat, on four feet, got from the Island of RAIATEA in the Society Islands Wooden beater and a tappa waist cloth wood sacrificial bowl Society Island war club, and a ceremonial staff, elaborately carved Large chief’s oar, for steering war canoe and for fighting, of polished iron wood, NUKUHIVA 280 281 ditto rare long hardwood club, the handle re- presenting a grotesque head; a Solomon Island ceremonial club carved with a human figure, and two long New Britain clubs carved totem pole, and two ankle rattles of hide, and small hooves worn by a medicine man, British Columbia Unique death mask from a mummy, elaborately worked in coloured beads, ANCIENT EGYPT Very rare large wooden chief’s bowl, TROBRIAND ISLANDS

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