MELANESIAN ARTEFACTS
A Triton shell trumpet; a Solomon Islands pottery vessels inset with white beads; two Admiralty Islands shark hooks with boar's tusk points secured to the wood shanks with putty nut; a gourd lime vessel with blackened ornament and lime spatula; a gourd vessel with stopper; two gourd containers, one inscribed: Souvenir du village de Changé 10.1.1871; three incised bamboo containers; two Jew's harps; bamboo pan pipes; a shell fish hook; a nassa shell currency length; a clam shell adze blade; an obsidian blade; a stone adze blade; two netting shuttles; and a bundle of bamboo sticks
The shark hooks 12½in. (32cm.) and 20¾in. (52cm.) long (22)