Otago Museum

University Otago Museum

Otago Museum

Butterflies

 

 

Otago Museum

 

Photos of the Live Butterfly Experience

 

 


 

 

baleen on a whale bonene

 

 

Kiwi

 

the egg

 

 


Polynesian Gallery

 

Kiribati and Tuvalu

Photos of Kiribati

The Polynesian gallery displays items from islands encompassed by Hawaii, Easter Island and Tonga, plus Micronesia. Among the many highlights are an Easter Island moai statue, the only known piece of pre-European stone carving from Pitcairn Island and a red and yellow feather cape formerly owned by Liliuokalani, the last reigning monarch of Hawaii.

 

Easter Island

Photos of Easter Island

The Melanesian gallery displays artifacts made and used by people from the islands of this area of the Pacific, from New Guinea to Fiji. Highlights include a superb group of carved figures from the Santa Cruz Islands, 3300 year old Lapita artifacts from the Kamgot site in the Anir Island group, malangan carvings from New Ireland, Asmat art, tree fern sculptures from Vanuatu, and fantastic masks from the Torres Strait Islands.

 

Samoan dwelling

Photos of Samoa

 

Kava ceremony

 

 

Kava bowl

 

Polynesian

 

 

New Guinea

Photos of New Guinea

 

Tami Island Mask

 

cloth from bark

Photos of Tapa

 

 

Asmat

Photos of the Asmat

 

double canoe

 

Fijian

 

Cook Islands


Maori cultural artifacts

 

model of a Maori settlement

Explore the Tangata Whenua Gallery, with its impressive displays of Maori cultural artifacts. The design of this gallery centers around the protocol of a marae, with local pieces to the left and northern provenance material displayed on the right.

 

skirt

 

Maori canoe

 

 


 


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