Live Breaking News & Updates on ப்ரொஃபெஸர் ஸ்டீவன் ஹூப்பர்|Page 1
Stay updated with breaking news from ப்ரொஃபெஸர் ஸ்டீவன் ஹூப்பர். Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Felix Chaudhary The Ratu Finau canoe exhibit at the Fiji Museum, Suva. Picture: SUPPLIED In a bid to mark Fiji’s 50th anniversary, the Fiji Museum is looking at developing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with major museums in the United Kingdom. The agreement, should it go ahead, would be a document for knowledge exchange about historic iTaukei artefacts held in the UK. A joint press statement from the British High Commission and Fiji Museum read an important first milestone to completing the MoU had been reached. “With the assistance of Professor Steven Hooper of the University of East Anglia in the UK, the Fiji Museum has received offers of collaboration from the directors of the British Museum, the National Museum of Scotland, Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology and the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford,” the statement read. ....
Major UK museums to collaborate with Fiji Museum To mark Fiji’s 50th anniversary of independence, the Fiji Museum and four major museums in the UK have been discussing to collaborate over knowledge exchange about historic Fijian artefacts held in the UK. From: 8 February 2021 Civavonovono (composite breastplate of whale ivory and pearl shell); early 19th century, 28cm; Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology (Z 2730). This chiefly breastplate belonged to Tanoa and his son Seru Cakobau, both Vunivalu of Bau, and very likely was presented by Cakobau in 1875-76 to Sir Arthur Gordon, the first resident Governor of Fiji, who later donated it to the Cambridge museum. Fiji Museum has several high-quality breastplates of this type, some of them currently on display in Los Angeles (photo courtesy of Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology). ....