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May’s night sky brings a rare blue moon, meteors from Halley’s Comet, and a strange galactic hamburger. We’ll also explore Coma Berenices and use it to find star clusters and distant galaxies.
Making Waves: Dr Dawn Wright
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adornment: armlet
armament, ethnographic: arrow
armament, ethnographic: axe
armament, ethnographic: club
armament, ethnographic: club, sword
armament, ethnographic?: axe head
Armlet
Arrow
Arrow head
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Bag
Bailer
Boar's tusk
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Colour transparency
documentary artifact: model, ethnographic boat
Ethnographic boat model
food service t&e: bowl
Fragment of Boat Structure
Full hull model
Full hull model; Bailer
Full hull model; Outrigger part
Full hull model; Rigged model; Sails set
Full hull model; Unknown part
Necklace
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Outrigger part
Paddle
Part of Boat Astucture
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relic, animal: tusk, boar's
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water transport: native craft: canoe, outrigger (New Guinea)
water transport: native craft: lakatoi (New Guinea)
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acrylic fibre
boar's tusk
bone
cane
card (mount)
coconut fibre
cotton
fur
glass
inorganic: jadeite ?
inorganic: marble, black ?
inorganic: marble ?
inorganic: stone
marsupial fur
organic: bamboo
organic: bone
organic: fibre
organic: shell
organic: thread
organic: tusk, boar
palm fibre
plastic
Polyester negative
shell
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wood: palmwood
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Display - Pacific Encounters Gallery
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Henry P. Bird
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New Guinea
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Port Moresby, National Capital, Papua New Guinea
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Hebe (1946)
John W Mackay (1922)
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Millar, Herbert James Ogilvy
Shortland, Frederick Willoughby
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Bag
Boar's tusk
Boar's tusk
Boar's tusk
Boar's tusk
Boar's tusk
Boar's tusk
Boar's tusk
Boar's tusk
Boar's tusk
Boar's tusk
Arrow head
Club
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Boar's tusk
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Club
Bowl
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Arrow (Arrow)
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