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Lid for a wooden box or papa-huia of canoe form for holding feathers, carved with figures of local deities in high relief: New Zealand, Māori
Wooden prow from a model canoe, carved with openwork curvilinear patterns and anthropomorphic faces with eyes of haliotis shell: Polynesia, New Zealand, Gisborne area, c. 1850
Fishing-hook with shank of haliotis shell and barb of iron, with line attached: New Zealand, Māori
Fish-hook with shank and barb of haliotis shell, flax fibre lashing, and a short line attached: New Zealand
Flute carved in the style of a Maori flute (putorino) of brown wood carved in two longitudinal halves and bound at both ends with flax, upper part carved with a face (wheku) and protruding tongue, medial orifice carved as an open mouth of a second face made by antiques dealer James Edward Little: New Zealand, early 20th century
Trumpet, triton shell with carved wooden mouthpiece in form of face with protruding tongue, inlaid haliotis shell and mouthpiece fixed with flax binding, probably of European make as, although reminscient of Māori pu tatara, the carving is not authentic: Oceania, Polynesia, New Zealand, early 20th century
House panel of wood, rectangular and carved with two human figures in relief, with eyes inlaid with haliotis shell: Oceania, Polynesia, New Zealand, North Island, Gisborne Region, Ngati Porou Territory, Māori, c. 1870
Carved wooden tekoteko with widely open mouth with protruding tongue and eyes inlaid with haliotis shell, incised all over with spiral patterns, probably from the front of a storehouse or pataka: Oceania, New Zealand, North Island, probably from the East Coast, north of Gisborne, possibly Tūranganui-a-Kiwa North, Māori
Foliated dish of lacquered wood with haliotis shell inside, red inside and black outside: Japan
Spoon, of dark mountain goat horn, with plain bowl riveted to tapering handle, carved with totemic figures and inlaid with haliotis shell: North America, Canada, British Columbia or USA, Alaska, Northern Northwest Coast, mid 19th century
Tobacco pipe head of wood boldly carved in the form of an eagle's head with a grotesque human figure below, with some inlay of haliotis shell, and rim of bowl copper-lined: North America, Canada, Northwest Coast, from the Stickeen River
Soul catcher, of hollow, cylindrical form, of bone with open ends, slit and expanded in form of the jaws of monsters, with inlaid fragments of haliotis shell, used for capturing the souls of sick people: North America, Canada, British Columbia, Skeena River, Tsimshian, mid 19th century