Colonial Museum Bulletin No. 1. 1905.

Ex-institutional collection, with "Royal Society Tasmania" rubber stamps on front wrapper and title page, "Duplicate" in pencil on front wrapper.15mm missing at tail of paper spine. Wrappers chipped at margins, large loss to corners of blank rear wrapper. Internally very good.; [2], 71, [1] pages. Printed pink paper wrappers. Page dimensions: 280 x 216mm. Contents: Introductory Remarks; Geological Survey of New Zealand; Colonial Museum; New Zealand Institute; The National Maori Museum; Work done on the Museum collections; Change in Museum Hours; The marine Mollusca of New Zealand; New Zealand tokens; Photographs and descriptions of carvings recently acquired by the Museum. Pages 56-71 are "Photographs of Carvings and of Weapons", with 24 black and white photographic illustrations of Maori carvings and artefacts. This article does not actually have illustrations of weapons, despite the title of the article. The illustrations include pare, (lintels for door or window), carved wooden canoe heads and stern ornaments, carved wooden figures, tekoteko, roukoura (dredge-net). "The purchases made by the Government for the National Maori Museum include many specimens of carving and weapons that have not hitherto been figured, and it is proposed in the "Museum Bulletin" to publish from time to time photographs as a record of the collections and for the purpose of comparative study." - page 57. Series: Colonial Museum Bulletins, Bulletin No. 1. [Reference: Bagnall H124 - "Reports on museum work and accessions with reports on marine mollusca, tokens and Maori carving and weapons."]

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Publisher: John Mackay, Government Printer / [Dominion Museum]

Year: 1906

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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