1000/1904/9
A Blackfoot embroidered pouch with a long fringe that once belonged to Chief Crowfoot.
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212/1996/4
1000/1904/6
Acquired in 1877 at Bow River, Alberta, Canada at the time of the signing of Treaty 7, when Britain made a deal over land inhabited by indigenous peoples of that area.
186/1972/11/1
Catherine Elliott, Nessa Leibhammer, 2017 DDF research: Beadwork pouch with strap (see 186/1972/11/2) used for storing snuff.
67/1958/8
96/1993/1
This pounder was used to pound breadfruit to make poi, the staple food.
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The pounder, or tuki, was used in the production of breadfruit mash.
2/2002
Raffia cloth packets of ‘medicines’ contained in specially made net-carrying bags surmounted by reed pipes, which were likely there to make sound.
9/1889/40
One strip holds a rattle (a pod containing beans).
9/1889/110
9/1889/66
9/1889/98
The nkisi (pl. minkisi) protected souls, offered healing, and located the cause of sickness.
9/1889/42
A hand-written note by Dennett is tied into one of the cloth fronds of this nkisi.
9/1889/39
Dennett himself classed the nkisi into three categories.
9/1889/53
A powerful female figure in an act of supplication.
9/1889/54
A carving of a high-status woman kneeling in supplication with medicines (bilongo) on her stomach and beneath her legs.
9/1889/57
This power figure (nkisi) is in the form of a dog, and would have been activated by an nganga, an operator of invisible forces.
9/1889/60
An nkisi was a container for medicines (bilongo) that were attached to them.
9/1889/67
.A giant West African snail shell contains medicinal ingredients (bilongo), which are sealed inside with resin.
79/1929/6
This figure resembles a power figure.
9/1889/81
The shell (kodya) of the giant West African snail (Archachatina marginata) is the focus of this figure.
9/1889/107
100/1993/9
100/1993/12
100/1993/13
432/2006
This prestige blade, or sai, was not intended as a weapon and was never thrown as it is large and too heavy.
91/1932/3
This prestige blade is called muder, which means ‘the scorpion’.
28/2006/663/1
Honiton lace is made using a pricking as a guide.
4/2021
This work shows the continuation of Brian Rice’s awakened interest in archaeology and associated imagery with motifs inspired by rock art.
2/2019/3
Limited edition print by Torres Strait islander Dennis Nona (1973 - present) #31 of 75.