Handicrafts For Norfolk Island
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Norfolk Island
From Merval Hoare SOON to be opened in Douglas Drive, Norfolk Island, right opposite the airport, is the Norfolk Island Souvenir Shop. The proprietor is Mrs. Amy Bathie, a descendant of John Adams of the Bounty.
Her shop will specialise in goods made on Norfolk, featuring local designs and, in the main, local materials. About a dozen people, most of them Norfolk Islanders, will contribute their handiwork for sale.
Hand painted frocks and scarves, colourful shells, table-mats and hats woven from flax (moo-oo) and drain flag, ornaments made from island wood, and small basalt paper-weights with Norfolk fish painted on them, are among the local handicrafts to be put on sale.
At present there is very little in the way of genuine Norfolk handi crafts in the shops, though there is a big demand by tourists for local souvenirs—after they have stocked up on the duty-free goods imported from the East.