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];...

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Archive & Special Collections CWM/LMS/01/10/1/033 Open

Order number: CWM/LMS/Home/Photographs/Box 4
Date(s) of creation: n.d.
Level: File
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
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item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
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title Artefacts from the London Missionary Society Museum
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format Archive
description 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].
scb_access_status Open
language English
language_search English
scb_file_number 33
scb_finding_aids Handlist available
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