Description (Physical description)
Pandanus basket with dyed purple and undyed tassels made by girls, a pandanus head ornament also with purple and undyed tassels , and a wooden figure of half man- half lizard (4 feet detached but present).
Event Date 24/7/2025
Author: Rachel Hand

Context (Found together / assemblage)
Carole Gibbs donated some of her collection to the British Museum in 2015, but these items were retained and exhibited during public talks that she gave about her life in the Pacific.

Pandanus basket, made by women in Nandele village and given as gifts at feasts at Otello Village etc
Festival dance headdress made by men in Nenumbo village
Carved man-fish figure holding feather money, made in Ortello village feet broken but present)
A second dance headdress offered to Teaching

Event Date 24/7/2025
Author: Rachel Hand

Context (Field collection)
Collected by Carole Gibbs who was the proprieter of Pigeon Island Traders in Mohawk Bay, Reef Islands, Solomon Islands circa 1970s. She lived in the Reef Islands for five years in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and traded mainly in copra, sea cucumber, hawksbill turtle shell, crocodile skins and shells.
Event Date 24/7/2025
Author: Rachel Hand

Context (Acquisition Details)
Bought to Cambridge by Polly Bence, Project Curator, the British Musuem, on behalf on the donor, Carole Gibbs, who forwarded them to the British Museum as a potential donation
Event Date 24/7/2025
Author: Rachel Hand