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adornment: comb
armament, ethnographic: arrow
armament, ethnographic: blowpipe
armament, ethnographic: bow
armament, ethnographic: club
armament, ethnographic: dagger, shark's tooth
armament, ethnographic: sling
armament, ethnographic: spear
armament, ethnographic: sword
Arrow
Back splice
Belt
Blowpipe
Bow
Bowl base
Bowline
Bowline on a bight
Box
Carrick bend
ceremonial artifact: mask
Chain splice
clothing accessory: belt
Club
Comb
Common sennit
Cut splice
Diamond knot
documentary artifact: knot: turk's head
documentary artifact: knot collection
documentary artifact: knot collection(on stand)
documentary artifact: model, ethnographic boat
Double carrick bend
Double Matthew Walker knot
Double sheet bend
Ethnographic boat model
Fan
fishing & trapping t&e: net
Flemish eye
food service t&e: bowl
Four-stranded rope eye splice
Full hull model
Full hull model; Rigged model; Sails set
Full hull model; Sewn model
Grommet
Hammock clew
Knot
Knot collection
Lanyard
Lid
Long splice
Lower boom with jumping ladder
Man-rope knot
Marlin spike hitch
Marlin spike hitch?
Mask
Midshipman's hitch
Net
Oar
Oval mat
Paunch mat
personal gear: fan
personal gear: lanyard
Rigged model
Rope
Rope sling
Round mat
Round sennit
Running bowline
Sails set
Sewn model
Shark's tooth dagger
Short splice
Single carrick bend
Single Matthew Walker knot
Single sheet bend
Skirt
Sling
Spear
Spritsail sheet knot
Square sennit
Sword matting
Tarred rope
Three-stranded rope eye splice
water transport: cargo vessel: boat, surf (Masula)
water transport: muscle powered vessel: boat, six mat (China)
water transport: muscle powered vessel: Liu-pieng Ch'uan (six mat boat)
water transport: native craft: canoe, outrigger (New Guinea)
water transport: native craft: canoe, outrigger (Polynesian)
water transport: native craft: canoe, outrigger dugout (Te Puke)
water transport: native craft: market boat (Ceylon)
water transport: native craft: surf boat, Masula
water transport accessory: rope
water transport accessory: rope, tarred
water transport accessory: sling, rope
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organic: bamboo
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organic: fibre, leaf
organic: fibre, vegetable
organic: fibre matting
organic: net
organic: reed
organic: shell
organic: silk
organic: thorn
organic: tooth, shark
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Traders: The East India Company and Asia
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Brookes, William Tolley
Millar, Herbert James Ogilvy
Shortland, Frederick Willoughby
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Taylor, Kepple
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Spear
Flemish eye
Three-stranded rope eye splice
Bowline on a bight
Single carrick bend
Double sheet bend
Double Matthew Walker knot
Passenger/cargo vessel; Surf boat, Masula (Full hull model)
Arrow (Arrow)
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Round sennit
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Belt
Cut splice
Short splice
Rope sling
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Cargo vessel; Six mat boat; Paper boat (Full hull model)
Sling
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Mask
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