Gift of Adelaide Goan

Brown ink print on thick, cream coloured paper. The image shows a large canoe at top, four figures seated inside and rowing with long paddles through large waves with rounded tops. Below, under the surface of the water, is a stylized triangular net containing several fish (bonito tuna) of various sizes, all decorated with linear designs. The boat, fish and net are surrounded by palm leaves to edges of the image, representing the technique used in traditional Solomon Islands fisheries of herding a school of fish toward a net using the leaves. Serigraph 2/30.

Tall carved and painted board, with some areas cut-out. Large white face at top has crescent-shaped eyes, a small open mouth showing even white teeth, and a protruding nose that attaches to the board's upper-midpoint. Below the face are carvings of birds, lizards, faces, and swirling motifs in white, orange, rust-red and yellow. Base of object is rounded with a large pointed protrusion at bottom centre. Back of piece is unpainted.

Tall, freestanding sculpture carved of wood. A female wearing a white mask embellished with painted lines and crescent motifs holds an axe aloft in her right hand. She wears a shell and sago fibre necklace around her neck, and a short sago skirt at her waist. Atop her head is a large sea bird painted in shades of light brown, with wings stretched up and out, beak and talons grasping a fish attached to the woman's forehead. The woman sits on the shoulders of a male figure, painted dark brown, who grasps her legs, wearing a large crocodile mask and a feathered loin cloth around his waist. He stands on a small round base carved as a turtle. The eyes of all the figures are shell.

Body adornment (karawut) woven of bark and fibre. The object is coloured with ochre, charcoal and lime, and takes a basic human shape with head at top, protruding nose running down the length of the face, large open eyes, and open mouth below nose. At bottom are two thin legs with dangling cowrie shells as feet. The chest is thickly padded. Lines of cowrie shells are sewn onto the torso and upper legs, and boar tusks, two per side, are attached along the midpoint edges. At back, a short loop of fibre is attached at mid-upper shoulder.

Table runner, woven from cotton. Primarily orange, with long black fringe on the short ends. Patterning runs the length of the piece at centre, and consists of lines of repeating symmetrical and geometric designs in three shades of pink.

Cotton sarong, tubular in construction with long ends sewn together. Garment is made of four pieces of fabric sewn together: a thin strip of unnbleached cotton is at one end, followed by a red stripe, then a wide centre panel of thin green and black stripes, and a strip of yellow embroidery covered by geomentirc designs in black, with green, pink and white embellishments. Small white and black motifs lead from the yellow area onto a red stripe which ends the piece.

Domestic bowl with flaring sides and rounded gambrel. Partially burnished surface. Broken and repaired.

Model pot or dipper with long horizontal conical handle. Modelled manufacture.

Low hemispherical burnished bowl with flaring sides and flat base. Interior has painted designs consisting of black dots with orange-brown undulating and crosshatch lines on yellow-cream background. Breakage repaired.