CANTERBURY MUSEUM.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17283, 26 September 1916, Page 2

CANTERBURY MUSEUM.

ADDITIONS TO THE COLLECTIONS.

The most important recent additions to the collections in Canterbury Museum sir© copies of tracings of decorations on. the canoes of head-hunters at Buku. in tho Solomon Islands. Tho original tracings are in the Australian Museum in Sydney. The copies wore made by I>r R- Elmore, of Kansas City,' United States, who visited Christchurch a short time ago, and the colouring and finishing were done by Mr E. J. Haynes, taxidermist at Canterbury Museum.' 'Hie colouring in paits is a brilliant red. Some of tho drawings represent human heads and figures. lb is stated that the decorations represented were used exclusively for canoes engaged in head-hunting expeditions. The copies, which are 25 feetlong and 5 feet wide, will be placed on the wall of the Ethnological Room. The authorities of the museum have obtained permission from. Professor Baldwin Spencer, of Melbourne, to copy Dr Elmore's tracings of drawings? made by Professor' Spencer during his notable, journeys to tho Northern Territoy. These drawings, also, represent aboriginal ideas of art, and will be exhibited in the Ethnological Room. Mr J. Hay, of Bealey Avenue*, hasr presented to tho museum two boxes made by him from native -woods, ona from silver pine and the other from tho Now Zealand fuchsia. Both are handsome pieces of cabinet work- They will bo placed in the Old Colonists' section of tho museum.

Mr A. H. Price, of Redcliffs, haa presented copies of posters published at Worksop, .Nottinghamshire, England, at the conclusion of the Crimean War, and containing programmes for tho celebration of peace. Some of the persons named as members of thff Celebration Committee have descend ants living in Canterbury to-day.