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Pacific Islands Monthly, 15 September 1939Vol. X, No. 2

Valuable South Seas

p. 44 · Read in the full issue

Artifacts

CANNIBALS, blackbirders, traders, whalers and sailors of the South Seas, 60 or 70 years ago, are re called by the presentation of a remark able collection of Polynesian and Melan esian curios to the Dominion Museum.

Wellington, N.Z. There are in it more than 300 weapons and articles of native craftsmanship from the whole of the Western Pacific, and the collection is of great value.

The collection was assembled by the late Mr. Gustav Kronfeld, Auckland.

South Seas islands trader, and was pre sented to the museum by his wife. Mrs.

Louisa Kronfeld,