Australian Museum Journal Additions to the ethnological collections, chiefly from the New Hebrides
- Shortform:
- Etheridge, 1917, Rec. Aust. Mus. 11(8): 189–203
- Author(s):
- Etheridge, R.
- Year published:
- 1917
- Title:
- Additions to the ethnological collections, chiefly from the New Hebrides
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 8
- Start page:
- 189
- End page:
- 203
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.11.1917.915
- Language:
- English
- Plates:
- plates xxxii–xxxix
- Date published:
- 30 March 1917
- Cover date:
- 30 March 1917
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Subjects:
- ANTHROPOLOGY; NEW GUINEA
- Digitized:
- 03 November 2008
- Available online:
- 16 December 2008
- Reference number:
- 915
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (120kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (9658kb PDF)
Abstract
[Abstracted from p. 189] The New Hebridean collection has from time to time received some very valuable additions, amongst others the following interesting objects:
I.—STONE FOOD-DISHES.
The largest of these (Pl. xxxii.), evidently an adapted block of stone, is broad oval in form, with a rounded rim, or periphery, of variable width. It measures two feet by nineteen inches in cross diameters, the full height is five inches, decreasing to two inches inside, and is ninety-six pounds in weight.
It was presented by Mr. J. E. Fysh, of "Big Bay," Santo, who states it to be about the size and shape of the to-day's wooden food dishes. …