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Description: | -The collection consists of 272 African mainly from the north and south; 249 Oceanic with 91 Australia, 78 Polynesia, 77 Melanesia and 3 Micronesia; 24 mixed Asian, 31 American mainly north and 18 European objects donated by GL Dorman in 1904, Dr AE Weatherill also in 1904 and 1900 and the Wilfred Dodds Collection after 1960. The Oceanic material forming the basis of the Capt Cook displays was collected in 1900-20 and has few original Cook items; original material is mainly on loan.
Generally the collection includes African spears, South African beadwork, Uganda and Far Eastern musical instruments and weapons from the Dodds collection. A few of national and international importance such as woven drinking tube from Uganda, wooden spear from the Sepik tribe of Papua New Guinea, a churinga carving from Australia, carved monster dish from Alaska typical of North Western Indians, wooden ancestral figure from Ibibo of Nigeria and double sided Chinese drum donated in 1941.
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Middlesbrough Cleveland United Kingdom,
TS5 6LA | FAX: | 01642 358100 | Telephone: | 01642 813 781 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:6109 | Go to resource |
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