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Stern post © George Nuku; Image © National Museums Scotland
View full screenCanoe (waka) in the form of a War Canoe (Waka Taua) with carved prow figure, and side strakes, bound with stern post (V.2008.96), wood and haliotis (paua) shell inlay: Oceania, Polynesia, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Bay of Plenty, Māori, c. 1820
A.UC.767
Unknown
Bay of Plenty Region, North Island, New Zealand, Polynesia
c. 1820
Pacific Peoples
Māori
Wood; sides carved with grotesque figures with eyes inlaid with mother of pearl
Facing the Sea (29 Jul 2011)
National Museum of Scotland
Knowles, Chantal (2013) Artifacts in waiting: altered agency of Museum objects. In: Reassembling the collection: Ethnographic museums and indigenous agency. School for Advanced Research Press, Santa Fe, Mexico, pp. 229-258
Stable, C., (2012). Maximum Intervention: Renewal of a Maori Waka by George Nuku and National Museums Scotland. Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies. 10(1), pp.8-18. DOI: <http://doi.org/10.5334/jcms.1011202>
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Earthenware saucer of shallow dish shape with simple incised decoration of circle and radiating lines, from Barvas, Lewis
Denticulated milk glazed earthenware vase made by Mrs Catherine MacLean, Bru, Barvas, Lewis, 1935
Portion of the base and wall of a vessel, from Glenluce Sands, Wigtownshire
Restored pot with decoration of scratched lines forming multiple chevrons, from Glenluce Sands, Wigtownshire
Fragment of a pottery ciinerary urn, from Howlet's Ha', Westruther, Borders, Bronze Age
Incomplete pottery cinerary urn, from Gallow Hill, Auchterless, Aberdeenshire, Bronze Age
Incomplete pottery cinerary urn, from Mawmill, Perth and Kinross, Bronze Age
Grey carinated bowl, decorated round the neck with continuous horizontal lines below which are festooned groups of concentric semicircles, damaged, from Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany
Pottery bowl, small, fairly straight sided, coarse blackish ware with ornamental vertical streaks, from Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany