CARNEGIE EXCHANGE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 41, 4 March 1937, Page 15

CARNEGIE EXCHANGE

Collection in Mliseuiii at Napier WEAP0NS & IMPLEMENTS Tha second exchgnge from the Carnegie lilstituta Cxchahge SystGin has now arrived at tlie Hawke 5s Bay Art Gallery and Mnseum ixt Napier from the Otago Museum. It is a collection of weapons and implCments used by the natives of New Caledonia, ahd pfesents an interesting coinparisbn with Maori work of the same type A greenish-coloured feottled ' stone named nephrite is incorporated in many of the Weapons, and bears a atriking reeemblaneo to the native greenstone* Ihe display, is hoiised in the special cass donated for the ptxrpose by the ■ Garnegie Instittite. • ' Further neW exhibi.ts include foreign ' weapons, donated from the Black col- •' lection, Gisborne* Perhap3 the most in- ; terestiiigi are Japanese twd-kanded^ swords, in ivory scabbards, .worke.d iny oitricate deeign. The weapons also in-f ! clude an Indian scixnitar in' a worke.dj metal scabbard and both Malay swords. and krisses ih scabbards. Buiiding work atj tiie addition to thq >uildihg is progressing rapidly. The basement of the addition has now beeri ^ompleted and. will soon be ready fair storage and, preparation of exhibit^. Ihe walls are being rapidly construc^ted,.and, it will.no t how.be loag-befojre the' additional wing will be ready ./to receiva further exhibi.ts. '