Collected curios
Subtitle: missionary tales from the South Seas
By: Barbara Lawson.
Contributors: Redpath Museum.
Series: Fontanus monograph series,; 3
Publisher: McGill University Libraries
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Montreal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
Subjects: Robertson, H. A. -- Ethnological collections.; Redpath Museum -- Ethnological collections.; Missionaries -- Vanuatu -- Eromanga -- History.; Material culture -- Vanuatu -- Eromanga.; Eromanga (Vanuatu) -- History.; Eromanga (Vanuatu) -- Antiquities.
Other titles: Missionary tales from the South Seas
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-285) and index.
"The focus here is on a collection donated to McGill University's Redpath Museum between 1883 and 1896, consisting of 125 objects from the New Hebrides ... gathered by H.A. Robertson, a member of the Nova Scotian Presbyterian Mission, who resided on the island of Erromanga from 1872 to 1912"--Pref.