Weapons - Fiji

Date: 1950

By: Beach, Earle, active 2008

Reference: Curios-032-039

Description: Sword with wooden handle, the blade covered with woven flax. Shark's teeth stand out on both edges of the blade, tied in place with light brown and dark brown cord. A few of the shark's teeth are missing from the edges, about eight from one side and six from the other. Sword estimated by Gail Clay, to be dated ca 1950. Quantity: 1 curio(s). Physical Description: Wood, shark tooth, flax, cord, 620 x 52 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-8935 - Collection as a whole taken into Manuscripts. Transfers made from here..

Reference: A-115-005

Description: Fijians engaged in combat Other Titles - Fiji Islanders Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving 139 x 241 mm

Date: 1900

From: Seddon's trip to the Pacific islands album

Reference: PA1-o-462-13

Description: Sudio photograph of a Fijian man posing as an enraged chief in traditional costume holding a club Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1900

From: Seddon's trip to the Pacific islands album

Reference: PA1-o-461-17

Description: Studio photograph of a Fijian man posing as an "old time" warrior Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1881

From: Highlands of Fiji :Copy Negatives from photographs by Gerrard Ansdell

By: Ansdell, Gerrard, 1853-1936

Reference: PAColl-5530-01

Description: Cannibal forks for eating human flesh, small "yagona" (grog) bowls, conch shell for war signals, Fijian pillow, Mallet for beating out "tapa" and war clubs. Information in scope and contents from caption. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: 1881

From: Highlands of Fiji :Copy Negatives from photographs by Gerrard Ansdell

By: Ansdell, Gerrard, 1853-1936

Reference: PAColl-5530-37

Description: Formal group of boys dressed in traditional costume shouldering war clubs. Some are wearing turban like head gear, one has a necklace and another a boars tusk pendant. Behind them are Fijian Buildings Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: 1881

From: Highlands of Fiji :Copy Negatives from photographs by Gerrard Ansdell

By: Ansdell, Gerrard, 1853-1936

Reference: PAColl-5530-31

Description: Formally grouped men in traditional dress, most of them shouldering war clubs, and some wearing necklaces. A number also have turban-like hats on their heads. Behind them are Fijian village buildings of dense thatch Meke is a word for a Fijian dance. As a verb it means to perform a dance. There are a number of different sorts of meke, eg:- meke-ni-valu, dance before war. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: 1881

From: Highlands of Fiji :Copy Negatives from photographs by Gerrard Ansdell

By: Ansdell, Gerrard, 1853-1936

Reference: PAColl-5530-02

Description: Whale's teeth necklaces, pigs tusks necklaces, single whale's teeth (peace offerings), Brain platter, small war clubs, war conch with ornamental handle, "Lali" or small war drum, Fijian pillow, Necklace of snakes vertibrae, comb Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: 1881

From: Highlands of Fiji :Copy Negatives from photographs by Gerrard Ansdell

By: Ansdell, Gerrard, 1853-1936

Reference: PAColl-5530-35

Description: Formally grouped men in traditional dress, all of them shouldering war clubs. A number also have turban-like hats on their heads. Meke is a word for a Fijian dance. As a verb it means to perform a dance. There are a number of different sorts of meke, eg:- meke-ni-valu, dance before war. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: 1881

From: Highlands of Fiji :Copy Negatives from photographs by Gerrard Ansdell

By: Ansdell, Gerrard, 1853-1936

Reference: PAColl-5530-17

Description: Group of two rows of men (front row sitting) in traditional dress, some holding war clubs. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: 1825 - 1826

From: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :[Watercolours, proof engravings and aquatints by Antoine Chazal and others after drawings by Jules LeJeune and others for Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde ... Paris, 1822-1825]

By: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854

Reference: C-082-086

Description: A Maori 'fork' carved out of a bone belonging to Korokoro, the recently-deceased chief of Kahuwera Pa, Bay of Islands. The fork is actually an ornamental comb, or heru, for wearing in the hair. A square-headed club from Rotuma (Fiji) and another with a round head from New Ireland (New Guinea). A depiction of a person's nose from New Ireland, with its pierced ornaments in situ. A stone axe, with its handle lashed to it with plaited rope. At the bottom of the page, a large hair ornament with a woven strap including mother-of-pearl, a central section surrounded with animal teeth and a large flattish shell at the base. Drawn in Paris by Chazal from artefacts brought back by Duperrey, 1823-1825. Likely to have been drawn by Chazal from specimens brought back to France from Duperrey's visit to the South Pacific and the Bay of Islands in 1824. Other Titles - New Zealand. Fork (i.e. comb) made with a human bone. It belonged to Korokoro, Chief of Kahouwera (Kawhuwera). Club of the natives of Rotuma, 4 feet. Club of the inhabitants of New Ireland (New Guinea). Nose ornament of the New Irelanders. Axe of obsidian or basalt of the Pomotu Islands or the the Society Islands - dangerous archipelago. Hair adornment of the New Ireland natives. A. pearly shell. B. small pieces of mother of pearl intertwined. C. Tooth of phalangex. [translation] Inscriptions: Recto - ink inscriptions beside each item Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 303 x 228 mm