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New Zealand Ethnology (0 subcategories, 10 objects in this category)
The New Zealand Ethnology collections provide good cover of Maori material culture as a whole and excel in their representation of the Murihiku region.

Oceanic Ethnology (0 subcategories, 2 objects in this category)
This includes artefacts from the wider Pacific area including Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia

World Ethnology (0 subcategories, 5 objects in this category)
The world ethnology collection encompasses Asia, Africa the Americas and the Near East.

Costume and Textiles (0 subcategories, 0 objects in this category)
This collection consists of ethnographic costume and textiles from the New Zealand/Pacific region, Africa, the Americas and Asia, and a large European costume collection.

Decorative Arts (0 subcategories, 59 objects in this category)
The Decorative Arts collection consists of stamps, medals, numanistics, ceramics, glass and silver, furniture, sculpture, armour edged weapons, clocks, watches and European jewellery.

Antiquities (0 subcategories, 11 objects in this category)
Includes Palaeolithic and Neolithic items, Ancient Egypt, Eastern Mediterranean, the Near East, Ancient Greece, Etruria and Rome.

 

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