Description: abrader. Sandstone with hollow ground working surfaces on front and back. Cortex is present on one edge. Shallow longitudinal scarf on one edge. Hammerdressing or light grinding on other edges. Triangular shape

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYDisplay Room: Tāmaki Herenga Waka: Stories of Auckland - Tamaki (Main Gallery)Description: abrader. Sandstone with hollow ground working surfaces on front and back. Cortex is present on one edge. Shallow longitudinal scarf on one edge. Hammerdressing or light…

Description: palette. Basalt palette fragment from Abydos. The palette is in the form of a falcon and is broken. The eyes are partially drilled but were likely not meant to perforate the piece. There are two more partially drilled holes halfway down the piece which do not perforate the thickness. The palette is burnt on one side and has staining on the other. It was probably not finished prior to discard, and may have either broken while being shaped or was a practice piece, although the amount of work put into it makes this unlikely. From Abydos 1926/1636.

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Number: 1926.225Accession Date: 07 Oct 1926Display Room: applied arts west, decorative arts, Ancient WorldsDescription: palette. Basalt palette fragment from Abydos. The palette is in the form of a falcon and is broken. The eyes are partially drilled but were likely not meant to perforate the…

Description: pendant. pendant with the face of Bes. The loop for the sting protrudes from the top of the head.

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Number: 1926.194Accession Date: 01 Sep 1926Display Room: applied arts west, decorative arts, Ancient WorldsDescription: pendant. pendant with the face of Bes. The loop for the sting protrudes from the top of the head.

Description: pumice bowl. Referred to as a pumice fire container. Piece of pumice with an uneven outer surface and a broad groove 50 mm across, and 9-10 mm deep, around the outer surface. The upper surface is 'level' and smoother in texture than the outside. The interior cavity is 113 x 98 x 85 mm. Sides of cavity vertical but the base is rounded and irregular. A piece of pumice has broken off one end at the upper surface but has been reglued. Has "Mangere" written on the object.

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Number: 1926.203Accession Date: 15 Sep 1926Display Room: Tāmaki Herenga Waka: Stories of Auckland - Tamaki (Main Gallery)Description: pumice bowl. Referred to as a pumice fire container. Piece of pumice with an uneven outer surface and a broad groove 50 mm across, and 9-10 mm deep, around the outer surface.…

Description: beads. String of steatite beads (240) with one tubular faience bead.

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Number: 1926.225Accession Date: 07 Oct 1926Display Room: applied arts west, decorative arts, Ancient WorldsDescription: beads. String of steatite beads (240) with one tubular faience bead.

Description: beads. Group of faience beads that arranged in a collar form. Small beads separate tubular beads (approx. 7 mm long) into a net pattern. Small beads occur in a double form (approx. 4 mm long) with two perforations. The collar either continued around or finished, with the piece finished by another material. Only half the piece is present.

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Number: 1926.225Accession Date: 07 Oct 1926Display Room: applied arts west, decorative arts, Ancient WorldsDescription: beads. Group of faience beads that arranged in a collar form. Small beads separate tubular beads (approx. 7 mm long) into a net pattern. Small beads occur in a double form…

Description: fern root beater. kauri.

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Number: 1926.62Display Room: Maori Natural History, Te Ao TuroaDescription: fern root beater. kauri.

Description: adze. Pounamu adze complete with bevel. Two longitudinal deep scarfs present on the front in order to divide into three chisels. Very shallow corresponding longitudinal scarfs on the front. Blade edge has two v's where scarf marks are and damage to the corner of the blade on the front. Poll ground on the outside edges and rough surface present in centre on both sides. Damage on front appears old as there is light grinding over the rough edges. Cross section rectangular.

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Number: 1926.250Accession Date: 1926Display Room: Tāmaki Herenga Waka: Stories of Auckland - Tamaki (Main Gallery)Description: adze. Pounamu adze complete with bevel. Two longitudinal deep scarfs present on the front in order to divide into three chisels. Very shallow corresponding longitudinal scarfs…

Description: pot, ceramic. Flat base, shallow vertical foot. Straight sides angle steeply up to sharp corner at shoulder. Shoulder aprox. mid height of vessel, and slopes inwards, with slight convex curvature, to very short neck, plain rim. Decoration is in brown glaze. Thin, brown, horozontal bands on shoulder and collar. More thin brown lines vertically separating repeated, stylised leaf shapes painted on shoulder. Cream ware. Indus Valley civilisation, ca 2500-1700 BCE

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Number: 2004.29.1Accession Date: 19 Apr 2004Display Room: applied arts west, decorative arts, Ancient WorldsDescription: pot, ceramic. Flat base, shallow vertical foot. Straight sides angle steeply up to sharp corner at shoulder. Shoulder aprox. mid height of vessel, and slopes inwards, with…

Description: pot, ceramic. Flat base. Sides almost vertical, slightly outward flaring. Shoulder slopes down from point of inflection. Rim vertical and plain. Brown lines on outside in regular pattern over cream ware. Baluchistan, western Pakistan, dating from before the Indus Valley civilisation circa 4th – 3rd millennia BCE.

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Number: 2004.29.3Accession Date: 19 Apr 2004Display Room: applied arts west, decorative arts, Ancient WorldsDescription: pot, ceramic. Flat base. Sides almost vertical, slightly outward flaring. Shoulder slopes down from point of inflection. Rim vertical and plain. Brown lines on outside in…

Description: pot, ceramic. Flat base, straight-sided body flares slightly outwards. Sharply angeled shoulder slopes inwards to restricted neck. Short neck, flares outwards, rim rounded. Interior of vessel undecorated. Exterior shoulder and body decorated with red and brown thin stripes around circumference and a central band of vertical stripes separated by rectanguls of zigzag patterns. Red clay coated with cream coloured slip. Baluchistan, western Pakistan, dating from before the Indus Valley civilisation circa 4th – 3rd millennia BCE.

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Number: 2004.29.4Accession Date: 19 Apr 2004Display Room: applied arts west, decorative arts, Ancient WorldsDescription: pot, ceramic. Flat base, straight-sided body flares slightly outwards. Sharply angeled shoulder slopes inwards to restricted neck. Short neck, flares outwards, rim rounded.…

Description: pot, ceramic. Shallow foot; bulbous body with in-curving sides to open top. Plain rim. Brown geometric pattern on outside. Cream ware. Baluchistan, western Pakistan, dating from before the Indus Valley civilisation circa 4th – 3rd millennia BCE.

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Number: 2004.29.6Accession Date: 19 Apr 2004Display Room: applied arts west, decorative arts, Ancient WorldsDescription: pot, ceramic. Shallow foot; bulbous body with in-curving sides to open top. Plain rim. Brown geometric pattern on outside. Cream ware. Baluchistan, western Pakistan, dating…

Description: pot, ceramic. Short vertical foot below a bulbous ovoid body. Wide, elongated neck with a slight flare ends in a plain rim. Decorated with narrow brown and red horozontal bands at base, rim and neck. Fluted, "scale" pattern around the belly of the vessel. Each brown scale has a red dot in the centre. Baluchistan, western Pakistan, dating from before the Indus Valley civilisation circa 4th – 3rd millennia BCE.

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Number: 2004.29.7Accession Date: 19 Apr 2004Display Room: applied arts west, decorative arts, Ancient WorldsDescription: pot, ceramic. Short vertical foot below a bulbous ovoid body. Wide, elongated neck with a slight flare ends in a plain rim. Decorated with narrow brown and red horozontal…

Description: sculpture, gold frog. see also ceramic G950-G8962, G396-G406. '... this frog, made in the Panama region, Central America, in the period AD 900-1200, and said to have been recovered from a grave at Colon, along with two other small gold items. The frog is actually made of a gold-copper alloy called tumbaga; in the finishing process the copper has been leached from the surface with acid and the remaining gold then burnished.' -150 Treasures book. Panama

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYDisplay Room: applied arts west, decorative arts, Ancient WorldsDescription: sculpture, gold frog. see also ceramic G950-G8962, G396-G406. '... this frog, made in the Panama region, Central America, in the period AD 900-1200, and said to have been…

Description: beads. Sting of faience beads. Six are in the shape of sitting cows. These are interlaced with short (32), long (56), and single (19) beads.

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Number: 1970.100Display Room: applied arts west, decorative arts, Ancient WorldsDescription: beads. Sting of faience beads. Six are in the shape of sitting cows. These are interlaced with short (32), long (56), and single (19) beads.

Description: plinth. Fragment of plinth with a cartouche of Nefer-Kheperu-Ra (Akhenaten). Excavation number TA

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Number: 1928.40Accession Date: 1928Display Room: applied arts west, decorative arts, Ancient WorldsDescription: plinth. Fragment of plinth with a cartouche of Nefer-Kheperu-Ra (Akhenaten). Excavation number TA

Description: bowl, glass

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Number: 1932.233Accession Date: UnknownDescription: bowl, glass

Description: vase, ceramic. Spherical body, rounded base with short cylindrical neck. Plain rim. Not glazed. Fragment of the rim is missing. Mound Builders, USA.

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Date: 1895Display Room: applied arts west, decorative arts, Ancient WorldsDescription: vase, ceramic. Spherical body, rounded base with short cylindrical neck. Plain rim. Not glazed. Fragment of the rim is missing. Mound Builders, USA.

Description: hoanga

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Number: 1920.90Accession Date: 1920Display Room: Maori Natural History, Te Ao TuroaDescription: hoanga

Description: bowl, ceramic. Rim is serated. Rounded base. Shallow parallel scratched on the inside in multiple directions. Not glazed. Part of the rim is missing with a crack emanating from area of damage. Base shows areas of erosion. Made by Mound Builders, USA [- eth card/reg].

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Date: 1895Display Room: applied arts west, decorative arts, Ancient WorldsDescription: bowl, ceramic. Rim is serated. Rounded base. Shallow parallel scratched on the inside in multiple directions. Not glazed. Part of the rim is missing with a crack emanating…