The collection includes: objects that reflect the natural world, including a herbarium; life prior to European colonisation, and life post-colonization. Significant objects in the collection include: a portrait of Pōmare IV painted by Charles Giraud; a Mangarevan coconut-log mask; historic examples of tapa; adzes and coconut pounders; breadfruit tools;ANTONI, J. & FALCHETTO, A. (2019): Knife in the wall: three examples of a rare tool-form on Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands, Eastern Polynesia, Archeometriai Műhely XVI/2 127-134. amongst others. The collection also includes objects originally collected by missionary George Bennet that have since been returned to Tahiti.
