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adornment: armlet
armament, ethnographic: arrow
armament, ethnographic: axe
armament, ethnographic: club
armament, ethnographic: club, sword
armament, ethnographic?: axe head
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documentary artifact: model, ethnographic boat
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water transport: native craft: lakatoi (New Guinea)
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acrylic fibre
boar's tusk
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inorganic: jadeite ?
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inorganic: marble ?
inorganic: stone
marsupial fur
organic: bamboo
organic: bone
organic: fibre
organic: shell
organic: thread
palm fibre
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wood: palmwood
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Display - Pacific Encounters Gallery
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Bird, Henry P.
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Papua New Guinea
Port Moresby, National Capital, Papua New Guinea
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Hebe (1946)
John W Mackay (1922)
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Torch 1894 (HMS)
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Millar, Herbert James Ogilvy
Shortland, Frederick Willoughby
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Arrow head
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Club
Arrow (Arrow)
Club
Axe head
Passenger vessel; Lakatoi (Paddle)
Passenger vessel; Lakatoi (Full hull model; Rigged model; Sails set)
Passenger vessel; Lakatoi (Paddle)
A close up starboard just off stern view of the coaster Hebe (1946) loading cable onto the the cable ship John W. Mackay (1922) in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (Colour transparency)
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