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Cabinet, Smoking

Decorative Art

F39.4

Japanese lacquerware smoking cabinet, Portable cabinets to hold pipe smoking accessories were common in Japanese homes and shops in the 19th century. Fitted with three drawers, this example is decorated on all four sides with auspicious symbols and domestic scenes. The containers on top were probably intended to hold ash and coals used for lighting the tobacco.

Machete, Sword

World

D65.1110

Helmet

Antiquities

E28.355

Bronze Corinthian helmet. Greece. Approximately 700 BC

Ring

Antiquities

E35.66

Australasian gannet

Morus serrator

AV4489

Bell

World

D06.18

Buller's mollymawk

Thalassarche bulleri

AV5029

Black-winged petrel

Pterodroma nigripennis

AV5130

Armlet

Antiquities

E28.13

Kahawai Lure

Taoka Māori

D10.106

Complete kahawai lure. Curved wooden shank with notches at head and base for lashings. White iridescent shell inlay, broken near the centre. Muka lashings at head and base. Twisted cord attached at head with a nail sticking out of the cord. Some feathers attached to muka at the base. Curved bone point with internal barb.

Key

Antiquities

E30.130

Sword

Antiquities

E28.17

Figure, Animal

Antiquities

E35.316

Composite fishhook

Taoka Māori

D81.934

Complete composite fishhook. Shank is manufactured from a boar tusk. Point is manufactured from an iron nail bent inwards at the base and then straight at the tip. The tip is attached to the point with muka. There is twisted muka at the proximal end of the shank for the line, with a knot at the end.

Kahawai Lure

Taoka Māori

D81.2605

Broken kahawai lure, iron shank and lashings remaining. Remnants of paua shell inlay and lashings attached to iron shank at head and base. Braided cord attached at head.

Celt, Axe

Antiquities

E36.261

Scabbard

World

D05.51

Pipe, Carving

Taoka Māori

D86.10

Complete wooden paipa (smoking pipe). Exterior of the bowl is carved with three human figures. Figures have realistic faces, hair, ears, and paua shell inlay eyes. Chest and arms have geometric patterns. Metal fitting around the bowl and stem rim. A smooth, curved mouthpiece is attached.

One-piece fishhook

Taoka Māori

D90.24

Complete one-piece fishhook point.

One-piece fishhook

Taoka Māori

D90.25

Complete one-piece fishhook point, manufactured from an iron nail. Nail head present at shank.