Toxic Relationships: The Dose Makes the Poison
Title
Toxic Relationships: The Dose Makes the Poison
Identifier
AT5912 2023-2024 Exhibition objects
Description
Objects for the Toxic Relationships exhibition
Date
Summer 2024
Creator
John Nolan
Collection Items
Opium Pipe
Part of an opium smokers outfit, in laquered bamboo, with ivory terminals and white metal bowl.
Poison Dart
Poison Dart contained within a glass tube with bungs at either end. Curare poison dart from the Amazon Valley. The tip is smeared with the Curare poison; the shaft is a slender tapered splinter of bamboo; it is feathered by some downy fibre wrapped…