Detail of the Vessel of friendship, a gold model of a Chinese ship

Royal Gifts: Buckingham Palace

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Oceania

Solomon Islands

Canoe carving (musu musu)

Papua New Guinean

Carved wooden figure of a warrior

Fiji

Tabua

Tonga

Box

Cook Islands

Carved figure

Stephen Kawurlkku (b. 1946)

Carving of a Dugong

Stokes & Sons, Melbourne

Pot pourri bowl and cover

John Dowie (1915-2008)

Queen Elizabeth II

Stacie Fogarty (active 2017)

Ceremonial Hook Boomerang

A boomerang made from mulga wood. Mulga wood (acacia aneura) is native to arid regions of Australia and has traditionally been used by indigenous groups as a hardwood for making implements including digging tools, woomeras (spear-throwers) and boomerangs.

Australia

Maori

Kapua Whakarito (Budding Cloud)

Maori

Papahou

Australian School, 20th century

Aboriginal Design

New Zealand

Hand-painted jigsaw in a box

Circular woven raffia fan in green, pink, yellow and purple woven design.

Fine plaited fans known as ili were traditionally made in Tuvalu using strands of coconut fibre. Today, raffia is often used instead. Colourful feathers are added for decorative

Tuvalu

Marshall Islands [Pacific]

White Kili bag made from woven coconut and pandanus leaves

Niue

Hat

A black and white woven basket with a double handle, a removable round flat lid, and a half sphere-shaped body.
This basket, with another (RCIN 74627), represents an industry which Queen Salote of Tonga, who presented them, had re-established on the islan

Tonga

Western Samoa

Model catamaran

Kiribati

Cowrie shell tray

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