Searching for:
Refine Results
Refine results
Images attached
Collection type
Classifications
Maker
Production date
to
Image Orientation
colour
View
4 results. Displaying results 1 - 4.
| Name/title | Maker | Production date | Description | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Piece of Limestone
|
A limestone offcut from Parkside Quarries, Weston, Otago.
|
|||
|
Sir Ernest Shackleton's Gloves
|
1907-1909
|
Sir Ernest Shackleton's gloves, made of skin possibly reindeer. A = Right Hand . B = Left Hand.
|
||
|
Peace Doll
|
1945
|
A children's doll or toy. It is hand made from hanks of sheep wool dyed in three sections; red, white & blue. Facial features are outlined in black wool as are three buttons on the chest.
All Ngapara girls given these dolls when peace declared as the polio epidemic had isolated them from the celebrations. RSA or Red Cross ladies made and distributed them. |
||
|
Victory Medal
|
McMillan, William (b.1887, d.1977)
|
Circa 1919
|
The obverse of the medal depicts the standing figure of Victory holding a palm branch in her right hand and stretching out her left hand. On the reverse of the medal is a laurel wreath containing a four-line inscription: "THE GREAT WAR FOR CIVILISATION 1914-1919". The dates are '1914-1919' to include post-war intervention by the Allied nations in the Russian Civil War. The medal is yellow bronze and is attached to the ribbon by a ring.
The ribbon is watered silk with a double rainbow, with indigo at the edges and red in the centre. "6/3279 - PTE. W. Collins N.Z.E.F." |
Loading...