Artefacts from the London Missionary Society Museum
Black & white photographs of artefacts from the South Seas held in the LMS Museum. Objects prictured include a figure of Tarianui ('Great Ears'), with the museum label indicating that this was a 'God of fishing, carried on the prow of fishing canoe' [see Ellis, 'Polynesian Researchers', Fig. 7];...
| Order number: |
CWM/LMS/Home/Photographs/Box 4 |
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| Date(s) of creation: |
n.d. |
| Level: |
File |
| Format: | Archive |
| Order number: |
CWM/LMS/Home/Photographs/Box 4 |
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| Summary: |
Black & white photographs of artefacts from the South Seas held in the LMS Museum. Objects prictured include a figure of Tarianui ('Great Ears'), with the museum label indicating that this was a 'God of fishing, carried on the prow of fishing canoe' [see Ellis, 'Polynesian Researchers', Fig. 7]; a standing male figure [Hawaiian Islands], and a standing casket figure from the Austral Islands, Rurutu, referred to by the missionary John Williams as 'Aa, the national god of Rurutu' [this figure and other artefacts were presented by Rurutuans in Aug 1821 to Rev John Williams at Ra'iatea, Society Islands]. |
| Extent: |
4 items |
| Access status: |
Open |
| Language: | English |
| File number: |
33 |
| Finding aids: |
Handlist available |
| Format: | Archive |