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Names

Name PrimaryThe Harry Voyce Collection: Bougainville - Buka Islands, first half 20th century

IDs

ID LocalAM0027

ID UriOffline Only

Descriptions

Brief DescriptionIn 1935 the Australian Museum bought 385 Buka Island (now Bougainville - Buka) artefacts from the Rev. A H Voyce. The collection comprised stone axes, body ornaments, bone implements, baskets, combs, aprons, spears and smoking pipes. The polished stone adzes and axes represent practically all the known types from Buka and some from Guadalcanal.

SignificanceRev Voyce of the Methodist Mission was based in the Solomon Islands from 1926 to around 1952 (apart from the last three years of World War II). He was interested in shells and insects and was a keen collector of artefacts prior to the war.

AccessAustralian Museum

Subjects

localCollecting; Indigenous artefacts; Missionaries

Coverage Spatial

TextBuka Island, Papua New Guinea; Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands

Coverage Temporal

From1926

To1952

Dates

Date Record Updated2012-05-30 23:41

Date Created in MME2011-03-18 13:33