`aumakua hulu manu Kuka`ilimoku (feathered image)  1700s Maker unknown, Hawaii Gift of Lord St Oswald, 1912

Squads parading on square  1940 - 1941 Anthony Gross, England Gift of the New Zealand Government, 1949

Sydney Exhibition - interior  1879 Roberts, Richards & Co., Sydney Purchased 1999 with New Zealand Lottery Grants Board funds

Untitled (’Pare’)  1891 William Partington, Wanganui

Church, Penrhyn  1886 Thomas Andrew Gift of Alison Beckett and Robert McPherson, 1996

Figurehead  1995 Laurence Aberhart, Wellington Purchased 1996 with New Zealand Lottery Grants Board funds

Poster, ’Buy Health Stamps’  1932 Marmaduke Matthews, New Zealand Purchased, 2002.

"Cleopatra" in Domain Cricket Ground  1914 Robert Walrond, Auckland Purchased 1999 with New Zealand Lottery Grants Board funds

Penasar Mask  20th century Maker unknown, Indonesia Gift of Theo Schoon, 1956

"Exotic various orders, Entomology"  1995 Laurence Aberhart, Wellington Purchased 1996 with New Zealand Lottery Grants Board funds

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