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	Name/title	Maker	Production date	Description
	Table Decoration with Hair Flowers	Bee, Mary Bryce (b.1870, d.1899)	1895	A floral, Victorian table decoration. It is an example of a then popular craft, consisting of flowers made from human hair. The flowers and foliage are constructed by wrapping the hair around pieces of wire and then shaping it. Typically the hair was boiled first. A variety of different coloured hair has been used and some of the flowers also have beaded details. Coloured thread has been used in places to hold the hair to the lengths of metal wire. The arrangement is on a yellow satin base and is then contained within a glass dome with a wooden base. This item was made by Mrs R. McDowell (nee Mary Bryce Bee) of Weston, North Otago in 1895. At this time she would have been around 25 years. She died aged 29 very soon after the birth of her only child, Horace Bee McDowell.
	Table Decoration with Hair Flowers	Bee, Mary Bryce (b.1870, d.1899)	1895	A floral, Victorian table decoration. It is an example of a then popular craft, consisting of flowers made from human hair. The flowers and foliage are constructed by wrapping the hair around pieces of wire and then shaping it. Typically the hair was boiled first. At least two different colours of hair have been used and some of the flowers also have beaded details. Coloured thread has been used in places to hold the hair to the lengths of metal wire. The arrangement is on a yellow satin base over cardboard with a glass dome covering the arrangement. This item was made by Mrs R. McDowell (nee Mary Bryce Bee), Weston, North Otago in 1895. At this time she would have been around 25 years. She died aged 29 very soon after the birth of her only child, Horace Bee McDowell.
	Oamaru Harbour Board Chairman's Chair		Circa 1874	Oamaru Harbour Board Chairman's chair. Large wooden chair with a high back. Four legs, each with a castor on the end. The seat, back and arms are padded with brown leather. The arms and back are ornately carved.
	Chair	Yardley, Walter John (b.1842, d.1877)	1866	Wooden chair with solid seat and shows some green paint. Made by Walter J. Yardley, 1866 at Palmerston. Made of Totara or rimu.
	School Chair		1860s	A wooden school chair with folding seat. This chair was used in the first school, Oamaru.
	Miner's Lamp		Circa 1940s	Kerosene metal miner's lamp "Premier. British made." From Ngapara Colliery and Kilns of Captain Nimmo. Lamp is missing glass.
	Candle Holder		Circa 1871	Portable candle holder.Wrought iron with black wooden handle. Brass ferrule. Brought out to New Zealand by John Grant in 1871. Used in farm servant's quarters.
	Card Table	Sinclair, David (b.Circa 1854, d.1937)	1880s	A wooden inlaid card table. This table has an octagonal top. The table top is made up of 122 pieces of timber. 26 varieties of timber were used, mostly New Zealand native species. The table can be used for a variety of games. There is a chess board in the centre. There are spaces for the different suits of playing cards, diamonds, hearts, clubs and spades. There are also two spaces somewhat similar to a cribbage board but without holes, possibly for keeping track of scores. The rest of the table top is decorated with geometric designs. It is a tilt top table. The base is a five column pedestal - a central column and one column above each of the four legs. The table was made by David Sinclair, an Oamaru carpenter, and it was exhibited at the North Otago A & P show and at the 1889/90 New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition in Dunedin.