02 Sep 2005

Type: Object / Artefact › HistoryDate: 02 Sep 2005ID: 2005.87.11Description: set of wooden nesting eggs Possibly acquired as souvenir by Sister Nancy Marion Robertson, QAIMNSR, WW1 Eight eggs plus one half-egg at centre.

18th Century

Type: Object / Artefact › Applied Arts and DesignDate: 18th CenturyID: 1932.233Description: ornament, oval, carved pale green jade, two [carp] swimming around with lotus flowers

Type: Object / Artefact › PacificID: 56322Description: Kupesi, patterned board for transferring design to cloth by rubbing colour over top, made of coconut leaves and ribs. Coconut leaf sheath backing, coconut leaf midrib and…

Type: Object / Artefact › PacificID: 1928.44Description: breast ornament; clam shell disc with turtle shell fish and bird motif attached by rolled fibre cord. Written in pencil on the back of the ornament is "Rev'd Arthur Hopkins…

Type: Object / Artefact › PacificID: 55586Description: Girl's dancing skirt; coconut fibre

1992

Type: Object / Artefact › Applied Arts and DesignDate: 1992Contributor: Junko KitamuraID: 16Description: Earthenware with white clay inlay. One of only two female Japanese makers in this collection, Kitamura lives in the Kyoto area where there is a large group of independent…

Type: Object / Artefact › PacificID: 1977.19Description: totemic fish figure small stone carved fish

Pre 1930

Type: Object / Artefact › PacificDate: Pre 1930ID: 1930.321Description: Wasekaseka. Whale tooth necklace. Consisting of twenty eight whale teeth, ivory/beige in colour. The teeth are long, narrow, and curved in shape, with pointed ends and bored…

Type: Object / Artefact › PacificID: 14318Description: comb. red-brown. handle has carved inserts and point with ball on end. originally thirty one teeth, one lost and four broken.

Type: Object / Artefact › PacificID: 34253Description: gun stock club, Grip carved in zigzag, small plaited coir - sennit wrapping at one end, larger above carving, concave at butt end.

04 Jul 1950

Type: Object / Artefact › PacificDate: 04 Jul 1950ID: 32652Description: carving of a goddess, wooden; heavy; dark-brown; wide across the shoulders; fingers and toes are formed by notched incisions; many indentations on forehead and sides of head -…

Type: Object / Artefact › PacificID: 1929.169Description: Samoan club

1990

Type: Object / Artefact › Applied Arts and DesignDate: 1990Contributor: Crown Lynn Potteries LtdID: K6107Description: vase, whiteware

Type: Object / Artefact › Applied Arts and DesignID: T528Description: skirt, woman's,pleated, silk satin with silk embroidery. Multi coloured pleated skirt, front panel in white with coloured embroidery and figures. Back panel in crimson as…

Type: Object / Artefact › PacificID: 1930.16Description: leg ornaments; local string and glass beads; these are worn above the ankle with the tie cords towards the front;

Type: Object / Artefact › PacificID: 8487Description: Masi Bolabola. Bark cloth with bold black stencilled patterns rendered in black dye. The overall design consists of eight sections with five horizontal rows of patterns,…

Type: Object / Artefact › PacificID: 15491Description: bark belt. engraved anthropomorphic design. Made by the Vailala and Orokolo tribes and sold to the Toaripians. worn only by men who have completed their initiation ceremonies.…

18th Century

Type: Object / Artefact › Applied Arts and DesignDate: 18th CenturyContributor: Doccia ManufactoryID: 1932.233Description: handle for a walking cane, mask on side of a face

Type: Object / Artefact › Applied Arts and DesignID: T1048Description: Uchikake robe with long sleeves and yuzen-dyed crepe with silk and metal thread embroidery of bamboo, cranes, plum blossom etc. Lined in scarlet silk, padded hem.

09 May 2003

Type: Object / Artefact › Applied Arts and DesignDate: 09 May 2003ID: 2003.37.1Description: pair of carved wood wedding ducks