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Harp Harp

Harp or kundi with wooden turtle-back body covered with leather, curved arm with carved head on headstock, five tuning-pegs and strings of vegetable fibre: Africa, North Africa, Sudan, Darfur

Drum Drum

Drum made of a large spherical gourd fitted with a cylindrical wooden neck and skin head, with a brass plate at one side with numerous small bells and brass objects attached: Africa, West Africa, Ghana, Kumasi, Asante

Fish-hook Fish-hook

Fish-hook with shank of rough pearl shell and hook also of pearl shell lashed with twine, made for tourists: Micronesian, Marshall Islands

Fish-hook Fish-hook

Fish-hook with shank of rough pearl shell and hook also of pearl shell lashed with twine, made for tourists: Micronesian, Marshall Islands

Lute Lute

Lute or gurmi with skin covered spherical calabash body with headstock wrapped in snake-skin, long wooden neck and two natural fibre strings: Africa, West Africa, Northern Nigeria, Katsina, Hausa People

Skirt Skirt

Skirt (liku) of vegetable fibre: Pacific Peoples, Fiji, late 19th century

Skirt Skirt

One of two skirts (liku) of variegated vegetable fibres: Pacific Peoples, Fiji, late 19th century

Skirt Skirt

One of two skirts (liku) of variegated vegetable fibres: Pacific Peoples, Fiji, late 19th century

Skirt Skirt

Skirt (liku) of vegetable fibre worn by girls in the mountains of Fiji: Pacific Peoples, Fiji, late 19th century

Skirt Skirt

Skirt (liku) of vegetable fibre worn by girls in the mountains of Fiji: Pacific Peoples, Fiji, late 19th century

Waist covering Waist covering

Woman's waist covering (liku) with plaited band and fringes of different vegetable fibres: Pacific Peoples, Fiji, late 19th century

Necklace Necklace

Necklace, composed of several intertwined strings of small white shell beads on vegetable fibre, with pendant of sperm whale ivory: Pacific Peoples, Fiji

Necklace Necklace

Necklace, comprising two strands of square-plaited vegetable fibre, ornamented with small white and coloured beads, and with pendant of sperm whale ivory: Pacific Peoples, Fiji

Necklace Necklace

Necklace, composed of two strands of square-plaited vegetable fibre ornamented with small white and coloured beads and small pendant of sperm whale ivory: Pacific Peoples, Fiji

Necklet Necklet

Necklet of four strands of plaited vegetable fibre, ornamented with small white and red beads, and with a small valve of a pecten shell as a pendant: Pacific Peoples, Fiji

Necklet Necklet

Necklet of vegetable fibre, ornamented with rows of red and white beads, and with a small red pecten shell as a pendant: Pacific Peoples, Fiji

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