box
- Museum number
- Oc1855,1220.62.a
- Description
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Wooden treasure box, wakahuia : brown, black and red stain, narrow pointed-oval shape, with raised lid. Large naturalistic face with male tattoo and haliotis-shell eyes (one missing) projecting at each end. Surface of box and lid divided by whakarare into eight sections on each, all filled with low-relief diagonal rauponga. Raumoa and haehae mostly coloured black, pakati mostly red. Two-ply twisted-flax string wrapped around one end of box.
- Production date
- 19thC (before 1855)
- Dimensions
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Height: 6 centimetres
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Width: 42.50 centimetres
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Depth: 8.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Starzecka, Neich & Pendergrast 2010
Provenance: Haslar Hospital Collection.
Register: ‘Marked no. 6131.’
Comments: Whanganui; 1820s–30s, small, well-proportioned box with close fitting lid (RN); 1860–80 (DRS).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1998 27 Jun-1 Nov, London, BM, Maori
- Acquisition date
- 1855
- Acquisition notes
- Presented by the Lords of the Admiralty through Sir John Liddell, C.B (the Museum of Haslar Hospital).
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1855,1220.62.a
