Berndt Museum of Anthropology
Armlet, Eastern-Central Highlands,
Papua New Guinea
The Papua New Guinea Collections
The Berndt Museum holds three important collections from Papua New Guinea. Two are from the Sepik region (the Akerman Loan and the Cruthers Collection), and one is from the Central Highlands (the Berndt Collection).Some highlights from these collections will soon be seen in the Virtual Tour.
Objects Held
There are a total of 975 objects in the Papua New Guinea collections, distributed as shown in the following table.| Object Type | Sepik |
Highlands |
Other |
| Ceremonial | 38 |
18 |
31 |
| Dress/ornament | 24 |
79 |
19 |
| Fishing | 0 |
0 |
1 |
| Habit | 9 |
4 |
11 |
| Household | 17 |
59 |
19 |
| Hunting | 0 |
0 |
1 |
| Music | 4 |
6 |
1 |
| Raw materials | 0 |
25 |
1 |
| Ritual | 1 |
2 |
0 |
| Tools | 44 |
159 |
11 |
| Toys/childrenâs paintings | 0 |
2 |
1 |
| Trade and status | 0 |
1 |
6 |
| Water transport | 3 |
0 |
1 |
| Weapons, defensive | 0 |
0 |
2 |
| Weapons, offensive | 35 |
206 |
133 |
| Bark paintings | 0 |
0 |
2 |
| TOTAL | 175 |
561 |
239 |
