Sales catalogue: Stevens

Date:
4-5 December 1928
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/21/567
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    725 726 727 728 729 730 Massive whale’s tooth (Taban), the property of chiefs and used as barter, a girl’s kilt, and currency shells in native basket An unmarried girl’s dancing girdle of pendant shells, a necklet, and a wood gong “ Lalis ”’ Box containing 3 Kava cups, a shell trumpet, and a turbo shell, used as a cup, and a shell scoop Box of different kinds of water bottles of coco-nuts, some are not Fijian Re Large food bowl PADDLES, BAILERS, &c. 731 732 733 734 735 737 738 739 740 741 Finely carved Trobriand paddle, very massive Carved Harvey Island paddle, with masks carved on top, very large Four others of different form, some damaged, all very old Four paddles, from Santa Cruz Isles (carved with conven- tional figures), Solomon, New Guinea, and New Zealand Very rare totemic paddle, carved with a raised figure and coloured, from Ambrym, New Hebrides Paddles, from Nicobar Island, Borneo, Kadayan and Sarawak Collection of model paddles, from New Zealand, New Ireland and Solomon (inlaid shell), and from Nieu (Savage Island) ie Paddles, from Ruk Island (Carolines), Matty Island, and from Orokolo (New Guinea), the! latter has totemic figure carving on blade Samoa and Fiji paddles, the latter is very rare New Ireland paddle, with ceremonial mask carved in relief, and a very old New Zealand paddle Punting paddle, with long spear-shaped blade, from the Belgian Congo, an Aruwimi carved paddle, and another we Te1Yo=3
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