New Acquisitions

Partially manufactured fishhook with drill work at centre.

Complete straight bone pendant. Notched along sides and tapered to a point at distal end. Knob at proximal end with a small portion chipped off.

Complete straight fishhook point. Two small notches on inside of base, one large shallow notch on external side. Internal barb.

Complete adze. Green stone. Oval cross-section. The surface is mostly bruised with flake scars at the butt and cutting edge. There is a reduction in the stone on the front and back proper right of the butt. The bevel is demarcated by a small ground area. The cutting edge is blunt and flaked.

Complete pounamu adze. Cross-section is oval. Surface is mostly ground, with a sawing mark on the proper right side. Sides taper to the poll end, which may have a fragment missing. There is no differentiation between the butt and blade. There is a line that demarcates the bevel. The cutting edge is sharp and curved with small chips missing.

Unfinished adze. Greenstone. Quadrangular cross-section. The surface is mostly ground with flaking and bruising on the proper left and a saw mark on the proper right. The proper left side of the blade tapers in towards the poll. The bevel is demarcated by an oblique line. The cutting edge is sharp and oblique. Greenhills written on back.

Complete bone pendant. Mostly straight, but slightly curved at the distal end. Suspension hole which has been drilled with a metal tool.

Broken fishhook, shank remaining.

Broken fishhook point, mid-point remaining.

Jug for wine or oil (askos), late Minoan period, octopus decoration

Tokwampini was the messenger in Pukumani mythology. He became a jabiru (native crane) but tokwampini is a common Tiwi name for birds., Patrick Freddy Puruntatameri is a Tiwi artist, born on Melville Island, north of Darwin. He is a printmaker and master carver, known to begin work on his ironwood sculptures with a chainsaw, before finishing them with hand tools and painted details., He said, “My father taught me everything about carving, how to use carving tools, what wood to use and what colours. He was the late great Murrunungumirri (Paddy Freddy)”

Ceramic rhyton (for pouring liquid offerings) in shape of a bull. Cyprus. Late Bronze Age.